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Cyprus unlikely place to find sport's next star

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 26, 2006

MELBOURNE, Australia -- The village in Cyprus from which 20-year-old Marcos Baghdatis hails is called Paramytha. Loosely translated, it means "fairy tale." It's near the resort city of Limassol, on the southern coast of the island nation, at the edge of the crystal-blue waters of Akrotiri Bay. When Baghdatis left home at 13 to go train at the Mouratoglou/Brett Tennis Academy near Paris, there was no way of knowing how his story would turn out. Multitudes of other ambitious young players make ...

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