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Five keys to the final

By Stephen Tignor, TENNIS.com

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The tennis season goes out with a bang this weekend. A tennis superpower of the present, Russia, and one from the recent past, the United States, face off for the Davis Cup in Portland, Ore. The tie will pit a close-knit, well-known U.S. team against an ever-shifting band of talented-but-unpredictable Russians led by their master of puppets, captain Shamil Tarpischev. Davis Cup ties are tough to predict; they tend to take on a life of their own as the weekend progresses. But as the teams nail do ...

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