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For TennisReporters.net subscribers onlyTHE TR NEWSLETTER: WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, NO. 232

Bad blood: Nadal, Soderling snap at each other

Plus: What ails Sharapova & Serena; Venus flies again



FROM WIMBLEDON – The longest blood feud on the men's side finally ended on Wednesday, when Rafael Nadal needed 20 minutes and five match points to take down his locker room enemy, Robin Soderling ,6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 4-6, 7-5 in a rain-delayed third-round contest that spanned 88 hours from the time they took the court for warm-ups on Saturday until they ended Wednesday afternoon.

The Spaniard called it "the toughest match maybe in my career," and then lit into the Swede in Spanish for being rude and unsportsmanlike.

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