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Nadal looking to conquer the final chapter in a memorable season

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 21, 2008

His nephew had just played the best grass-court match of his 22 years, but Toni Nadal was already thinking ahead to the simmering summer season of hard-court tennis. "Rafael," the coach said while tapping his temple, "needs to play like he is on grass all the time." This was six weeks ago, and Rafael Nadal had just embarrassed -- humiliated is not too strong a word -- Andy Murray in the Wimbledon quarterfinals, doing so in less than two hours. Nadal had vaulted out of his clay-co ...

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