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Aussies nurtured some of tennis' greatest champions

By Joel Drucker
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

As flags fly over Beijing, here's a look at the 10 greatest nations in tennis history. 1. Australia Never mind that the flow of top players has slowed to a trickle. What matters most is the Aussie code and how it has long set the gold standard for how tennis players should comport themselves. Back in the days when such stars as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, John Newcombe, Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong kept Australia atop the tennis world, the saying was "first to the net, first ...

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