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Southpaw Nadal a rarity among his tennis brethren

By Bonnie D. Ford
ESPN.com

Monday, October 27, 2008

Four Points Milestones Rafael Nadal, a natural right-hander who learned to hit left-handed as a boy, is the ATP's first lefty year-end No. 1 since John McEnroe in 1984, and when Nadal rocketed to No. 2 in 2005, he was the first lefty to crack the year-end top 10 since Chilean sourpuss Marcelo Rios in 1999. If we assume -- as most studies show -- that southpaws make up roughly 10 percent of the population, they're fairly represented in the ATP's top 100 (12 this week) and the top 20 (Nadal and ...

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