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Inclement weather raises roof rhetoric

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Friday, September 11, 2009

NEW YORK -- Rain-soaked Arthur Ashe Stadium was virtually empty Friday afternoon, aside from a small corps of drying machines crawling across the blue court. But inside, the second-floor players' lounge was crowded. There was a happy buzz in the room as people went about the business of killing time. Three principals in the day's marquee matches were within 30 feet of each other, yet they all were very much in their own, insular worlds. Rafael Nadal, readjusting his white hat t ...

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