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Schedule management crucial today

By Joel Drucker
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, April 10, 2009

Tennis players manage pressure, expectations and scheduling in many ways. The same day he cracked his racket to the ground, Roger Federer expressed relief that the hard-court season was over. This from a man who as recently as 2006 swept through Australia, Indian Wells, Calif., and Key Biscayne, Fla. While Federer was eager to head to clay because he's been frustrated this year on hard courts, no doubt Rafael Nadal is amped up for the European clay-court season because it's the spot where ...

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