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Career-defining final for Nadal

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Friday, June 9, 2006

PARIS -- The Minotaur, a dark force of chaos in Greek mythology, was half-man and half-bull. He was banished by King Minos to a dungeon on the island of Crete that was an inescapable labyrinth. Seven Athenian men were sacrificed each year to the man-eating beast. In tennis, Rafael Nadal is that heavily muscled half-man, snarling half-beast. He hails from the island of Majorca off the coast of Spain -- not far from Crete. His game on clay is an unsolvable riddle, an inescapable laby ...

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