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Don't write off Nadal on grass

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, July 7, 2006

WIMBLEDON, England -- It's a matchup that might have seemed unlikely to most members of the tennis world when this tournament got under way 11 days ago on a rainy Monday. There were so many questions about second-seeded Rafael Nadal's ability to make the adjustment from Parisian clay to Wimbledon grass -- and there was so little faith in the 20-year-old Majorcan's propensity for summoning his best tennis at the most opportune moments. Nevertheless, Nadal clinched a spot Friday in his first Gra ...

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