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A little change will go a long way for Fed

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 28, 2009

PARIS -- As he politely tapped his red Wilson racket to acknowledge the standing ovation of the Roland Garros crowd on Thursday, Roger Federer wore a look somewhere between self-loathing and utter contempt. He had just played a troubling second-round match, lasting nearly 3½ hours, against Jose Acasuso, the erratic Argentine, and been lucky to escape with a 7-6 (8), 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-2 victory that was even closer than the score suggests, if that is possible. "Could have won fi ...

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