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COPYRIGHT 2001 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Charles Bricker
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. _ If you had been listening two days earlier, you would have heard Andy Roddick issuing his mantra for this greatest weekend of his young tennis career.
"Last year I went out there to take my beating," he said on Friday, recalling his debut Ericsson Open as a fresh-faced, starry-eyed 17-year-old facing Andre Agassi. "This year, I don't think I'm going to do that."
No indeed.
In front of 14,000 on the stadium court Sunday and a few others tuned into the live broadcast on ESPN, the young man from Boca Raton with the thunderbolt serve and the unlimited future pulled off one of the great upsets in the history of the Key Biscayne tournament by trouncing his hero, Pete...
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