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Ranking returns slowly for Russian Andreev

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, June 4, 2007

PARIS -- International crowd favorite Marcos Baghdatis walked off Suzanne Lenglen court Monday to the accompaniment of a warm, yearning chorus that clearly would have liked to see him and his million-watt smile stick around longer than the round of 16. The applause for his vanquisher, Russia's Igor Andreev, was sustained and respectful, but there was a slightly uncertain undertone to it. Who is this guy? And where did he get that bullwhip of a right arm? The 125th-ranked Andreev is the ...

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