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What's next in the Federer-Nadal rivalry?

By Bonnie D. Ford
ESPN.com

Friday, August 28, 2009

It was only two years ago that Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal met in a gimmicky exhibition match on a half-grass, half-clay court on Nadal's home turf of Mallorca, Spain. The idea may have been contrived, but it also mapped out what we thought we had -- a neatly defined coexistence in which each man was supreme within his own rectangle. Now it's clear that we completely underestimated both of these players when we assigned each a designated patch of earth. Federer and Nadal began poaching on e ...

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