Jon Henderson
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/ 9 June 2006

Rafael Nadal: One tough hombre

Get used to it. It is early June and tennis is in thrall to Rafael ”Rafa” Nadal, the Majorcan who, once he steps on to a clay court, transmutes from softly smiling youngster to, in the estimation of one leading British coach, ”the toughest bastard the game has ever seen”.

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/ 5 December 2003

Agassi the ageless

Andre Agassi has pulled off many eye-catching feats in his tennis career, to which must now be added his latest exploits in Houston, when in the space of 24 hours he regained the number one world ranking and scored a remarkable victory in the final of the United States clay-court championship.