Spirited Nadal overcomes scary start
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It was Charles Dickens who once wrote about ghosts of the past, present, and future. And while similar apparitions roamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center yesterday, prompting death watches at courts around the grounds, those men with the greatest expectations hoisted upon them, in the end, proved most stingy or, dare we say, Scrooge-like.
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Rafael Nadal beat Robin Soderling today in a rain-interrupted third-round match.
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Spain set up a Davis Cup final against  the United States after Rafael Nadal used his youthful  exuberance to charge past France's Arnaud Clement on Sunday.
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Rafael Nadal, the two-time defending champion, is cruising through the French Open and will now face countryman and former champion Carlos Moya in the quarterfinals.
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Erasing a two-set deficit despite playing on a fourth consecutive day, Rafael Nadal beat Mikhail Youzhny in five sets yesterday to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
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Amelie Mauresmo emerged from a potentially difficult first round match at the Qatar Open with a 7-6 6-3 win over Germany's Sabine Lisicki.
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World number two Rafael Nadal thumps Jarkko Nieminen and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overpowers Mikhail Youzhny in the Australian Open quarter-finals.
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Spain&#39;s 18-year-old tennis sensation Rafael Nadal is already looking forward to a possible third round tie against Andre Agassi after defeating Davide Sanguinetti in his opening game at the Tennis Masters Madrid.
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Rafael Nadal survives a three-set thriller against Igor Andreev to reach the Dubai Open quarter-finals.
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Rafael Nadal, last yearâs runner-up, played for the fifth consecutive day at Wimbledon but never faced any serious challenges against Tomas Berdych, winning 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals.
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Rafael Nadal begins his Wimbledon campaign with victory over Mardy Fish.
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Rafael Nadal bounced back from a sluggish start and moved into the next round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday.
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With his first match of the season behind him, Jiri Novak has regained his confidence.
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It was tough to watch Sunday's Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Not because the tennis wasn't riveting -- it was -- not because the two men aren't wonderful players -- they are.
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Defending champion Rafael Nadal pummeled fellow-Spaniard Carlos Moya into submission at the French Open on Wednesday to reach the semi-finals with a crushing 6-4 6-3 6-0 victory.
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Rafael Nadal tried to look on the bright side despite suffering his heaviest defeat in three years when he was overwhelmed 6-1 6-2 by David Nalbandian in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters on Friday.
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Rafael Nadal and Venus Williams advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday but not before some uneasy moments in Arthur Ashe Stadium.