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Unblemished Nadal aiming to build on historical French run

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 22, 2008

History hangs in the spring air at Roland Garros, heavier than the pollen drifting from the trees populating the adjacent park, Bois de Boulogne. Walk through the iron gates and across the gray cobblestones, and you can feel it. Head toward charming Court 1, the original stadium court, and you can actually see it: the worn stone replica of the Davis Cup trophy that the French Musketeers -- Rene Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon -- brought back from America in 1927. A tr ...

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