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Americans missing as second week starts

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, January 22, 2006

MELBOURNE, Australia -- First it was a player from that noted tennis powerhouse, Luxembourg, humbling Andy Roddick in the first round of the 2005 U.S. Open. But Gilles Muller's 15 minutes of fame have since faded. Sunday in an enclosed Rod Laver Arena, with the mid-afternoon temperature outside reaching 42 degrees Celsius (107 degrees Fahrenheit), it was a Greek Cypriot, former world junior champion Marcos Baghdatis, who rocketed onto the tennis landscape at the expense of the one-time U.S. O ...

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