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Federer survives beautiful match from unheralded opponent

By Bonnie D. Ford
ESPN.com

Saturday, January 19, 2008

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Roger Federer might like to say he's playing against history, but Saturday, he had to play literature buff Janko Tipsarevic. Tipsarevic is the Stealth Serb -- a 23-year-old bundle of energy who quietly snuck into the top 50 last season while three of his fellow citizens basked in newfound limelight. He loves classic literature and has one arm tattooed with a quote -- "Beauty will save the world" -- from "The Idiot" by Russian master Fyodor Dostoevsky, which he is re-rea ...

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