Martin Verkerk is the big-serving Dutch player who reached the French Open final in 2003.
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Martin Verkerk has suffered a series of injuries since his great run at the 2003 French Open. He suffered a lost of form in 2004 before his season ended in July after he underwent knee surgery. His 2005 season was against injury plagued. He withdrew from the 2005 French Open after a recurrence of injury. He has yet to play a tournament in 2006 after withdrawing from his hometown ATP tournament in Rotterdam on Febuary 20.
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Adriano (Brazil) in the final against France
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My guess must be FED EX he's an overall player able to play in any surface to perfection, better place your bets on Roger Federer.
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i think the dutch team of the past three or four world cups should have won the tournament
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Nadal can definatly beat Borg's record and I hope he beats Vilas! Nadal played great to beat Federer and unless some other player figures out how to beat him on clay, Nadal could win at least 12 more.
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I remember Kluivert's header as the day of yesterday. Tied it in the last minute. But then Holland lost on penalty kicks... again...  for bonus points: Ronaldo scored the first goal right after half-time; Kluivert got a red card in the first game of the tournament; and who can forget the brilliant goal from Bergkamp against Argentina that got Holland in the semi-finals in the first place!
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i totally agree.\nNadal is Hoooooooooooottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!\nHe may not be dominating the grass and hard courts but, he is definately the king of the clay. with a little more practice Nadal will be the King of all surfaces.\nNadal is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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He is a great player, very handsome, but unfortunately, he lost the game against Nadal because he was injured.\n\nAnd by the way, his last name is Djokovic.\nI adore him!!!
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http://www.eurosport.fr/football/ jusqu en 2003
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Well, I would probably go for Martina Hingis right now. Most female players either are very inconsistent or just dont make the best role-models.
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I've never heard of the River Oaks International. I heard Sampras would be joining the World Team Tennis league, which may be televised on the Tennis Channel (I dunno, cause I only get basic cable). Pretty much if you wanna watch anything besides a grand slam, then the Tennis Channel is the only channel that might cover it.
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West Germany beat Holland 2-1 in the final.
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Against Dmitry Tursonov?\nWhy , that's a very old match , a Davis Cup semi final .\nRoddick lost in five sets , the win took Russia 2 the final where they will be playing Argentina.\n\nMaybe , the match u saw yesterday was a repeat of that epic match .....cause the season has ended , no tournaments now
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The Dutch will win having been undefeated in their journy to Germany, Their new coach Marco Van Basten has done a fine job of selecting a new generation of young players,many whom are playing internationaly, i also think that the Dutch pick things up a notch when playing in Germany
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NADAL!!!\n\ndrop dead gorgeous!!!
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For men, you'd have to say Pete Sampras.  He won Wimbledon 7 times, against relatively tough competition.  For clay, I'd probably pick Borg who won the French Open six times.  Although I'd believe a modern player like Nadal would beat Borg, that has as much to do with modern equipment as anything.  For hard courts, I'll pick Ivan Lendl.  Lendl had perhaps the worst win record of anyone of his talent, but he reached the U.S. Open final from 1982-1989, which is 8 consecutive years in a row, and he won it 3 years in a row.  Had Lendl been just a little tougher mentally, he would be considered the best player ever.\n\nFor doubles, hmm, I'll go with the classic of John McEnroe and Peter Fleming, although there were many very talented doubles teams.  Its popularity has fallen due to a lack of a top singles player.\n\nFor women on grass, I'll pick Martina Navratilova. I know. She won Wimbledon 9 times, and she was a finalist 3 more times.  That's a lot of times to reach the finals.  Steffi Graf won 7 times as a baseliner, but I prefer to see a serve and volleyer on grass, especially considering how few women play this style of tennis anymore.  On clay, Chris Evert was the queen of clay, winning the French Open 7 times and reaching the finals twice more.  Women's hard courts is a close call.  Martina won the US Open on hard court 4 times, but was finalist 4 more times.  Steffi Graf won it 5 times, and was finalist 3 more times.  I'll give the edge to Graf. \n\nFor women's doubles, I'd pick Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver.  They're the only doubles player to win the Grand Slam.  They won 109 matches in a row, a record.\n\nIf you had to pick mixed doubles, you'd have to pick Margaret Court who won a mixed Grand Slam in 1963 with Ken Fletcher, then again in 1965, with three different partners (John Newcombe, Ken Fletcher, Fred Stolle).
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its Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi who has won a total of 19 davis cup doubles matches as a team, the last one being their recent victory over Pakistan