courters

The 6-3 Swede is the in-form player, having punched past high quality clay-courters David Ferrer, Nikolay Davydenko, and, most of all, the formerly undefeated at Roland Garros four-time champion Nadal.

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The best clay courters have this mentality and go into each match with a great deal of patience, working the ball and working the ball until you get the right opening or until your opponent is so far off the court they can't recover.

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With this technically very limited backhand,it is obvious that Federer will not win the FO this year again bacause there are better clay-courters like Ferrer, Almagro, Davidenko and Nalbandian who will cause him all sorts of trouble on the surface.

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But on the other hand you see clay courters, baseliners having a serious chance now in the championship because it is now more evenly played.

Tennis Talk 2007

"He has proven that he's one of the top five grass-courters in the world," Roddick said.

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"He's right up there with the best clay courters."

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He knows what clay-courters think when they play a big server like me, Sampras said.

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Well, Governor Davis also faces credible challenges from other courters.

CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2003 2003

For they were certainly no seekers after wealth, or courters of the great.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

He ain't a bit like one of them courters of the old French courts that you read about in the Famous Crimes of

Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903