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A-game too much to ask before U.S. Open

By Peter Bodo

Friday, August 21, 2009

We all saw Roger Federer struggle mightily to overcome David Ferrer on Thursday in Cincinnati (it went 6-4 in the third), despite the world No. 1 having owned the Spanish grinder since forever. It was a pretty apt symbol for the state of tennis these days, as well as a broader comment on the changing nature of the summer hard-court circuit -- or, as the United State Tennis Association prefers to call it, the U.S. Open Series. Federer is still futzing with the Greatest of All Time crown that sit ...

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