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Jackson, Fed Cup team motivated by doubters

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, April 24, 2006

News that the 17-time champion U.S. Fed Cup team would have to do without Lindsay Davenport and the Williams sisters in the quarterfinals didn't get a lot of love in a post-announcement smattering of headlines, which described the roster as "depleted" and "patchwork." Turns out that rampant pessimism was a case of not seeing the forest for the trees -- in particular, one young sapling who last weekend showed she may be ready to emerge from the shade cast by those long-dominant, now idled play ...

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