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No marathon rallies in this match

Associated Press

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

SHANGHAI, China -- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Fernando Verdasco, acclaimed for their speed around the court, admitted to feeling a little nervous themselves as they played a modified exhibition match while hurtling around Shanghai in one of the world's fastest commercial high-speed trains. Billed as the "fastest tennis in the world," seventh-ranked Tsonga of France took on ninth-ranked Verdasco of Spain on a mini-tennis court laid down in one of Shanghai's high-speed Maglev trains on Tuesday as it ...

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