Nadal Beats Soderling and the Rain at Wimbledon
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The rain-delayed, five-day passion play at Wimbledon ended today with Rafael Nadal defeating Robin Soderling.
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Heavy rain, topped by thunder and lightning, returned to plague Wimbledon on Tuesday as the 2007 championships were declared the wettest for 25 years.
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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have been teed up to resume their rivalry in the Wimbledon final after being named as top seeds for this year&#39;s men&#39;s singles.
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Second seed Rafael Nadal meets Sweden's Robin Soderling in the third round on Centre Court.
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Believe it or not, Wimbledon organizers have been somewhat lucky so far. There's been plenty of rain through the tournament's first 1 1/2 weeks, including Thursday, but the four men's fourth-round matches that had to be completed to hold out any hope of holding the final on schedule did get done.
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NEW YORK -- On the court, Rafael Nadal is mature beyond his years , both in his game and his reactions, no matter the circumstances or the venue. So it was noticeable when another sort of emotion was splashed across his face yesterday as evening approached and his first - round match, against Mark Philippoussis, was shoveled off to today.
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After beating Robin Soderling in a tedious and testy match, Rafael Nadal sniped at the perceived slights he felt from Soderling.
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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal moved closer to a Wimbledon final repeat on Friday while marathon man Novak Djokovic hammered home his credentials as the All England Club dangerman.
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Rafael Nadal is in action after rain again delays the start of play at Wimbledon.
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Last month was the country&#39;s wettest June since records began, provisional figures out Thursday showed, as a flood clean-up continued and a backlog of tennis matches stacked up at rain-soaked Wimbledon.
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Wimbledon resumes this morning with the resumption of several matches that began yesterday. Second-seed Rafael Nadal wasn't able to finish his match with Robin Soderling as rain shut things down with the score 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 4-6, 2-0 in favor of Nadal. Fourth seed Nicolas Djokovic, sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko and number-16 Lleyton Hewitt were leading their matches when play was stopped.
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Heavy rain brought action on the fifth day of Wimbledon to a halt on Friday.
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Rafael Nadal is among those in action when rain again halts play at Wimbledon.
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Sport: Wimbledon: Reigning champion recovers from losing first set of tournament to reach semi-finals.
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Rafael Nadal talks a lot about how he hopes to contend for a Wimbledon title in three or four years, once he gets used to the odd bounces and tricky footing that come with playing on grass. Could it happen much faster than he &amp;#151; or anyone else &amp;#151; thought?
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Rafael Nadal struck back to level the men's singles final at Wimbledon on Sunday, taking the second set 6-4 against champion Roger Federer after the first had gone to the Swiss on a tiebreak.
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Top-seeded Rafael Nadal beats Mathieu Montcourt , 6-2, 6-4, in Tuesday's first round of the Chennai Open in India, while Marcos Baghdatis falls.