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Clay: The real tennis?

By Stephen Tignor, TENNIS.com

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Many compelling stories have cropped up during the French Open. There's the Roger and Rafa Show, the curiously meek effort by Serena Williams, and the Serbian Revolution. But is there a subtler change going on beneath the, ahem, surface on the men's side? Take a look at the semifinalists. Between Roger Federer, Nikolay Davydenko, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, only Nadal could be called a "clay-court specialist." But he's also much more. Unlike his Spanish predecessors, he's willing to chan ...

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