Just what tennis needs , '' said Rod Laver , a Southern Californian by way of Australia and thus imbued with the belief that even U.S.A.-chanting Americans can rise above provincial prejudices to appreciate the historic implications playing out between a Swiss and a Spaniard on European clay courts .
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