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COPYRIGHT 2001 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Charles Bricker
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. _ The calendar read Monday, but it must have felt like Fryday to Jerome Golmard, who paused near the end of the second set of his third-round loss to Alex Corretja to lean against a low gate, where he inhaled deeply for several seconds.
One point later, still exhausted on the most stifling day of the Ericsson Open so far, Golmard sat down on the green concrete, his back to the net, determined to use every tick of his 25-second limit between points.
It was survival of the fittest on a muggy, windless day in which the thermometer hit 90 on court and eighth-seeded Patrick Rafter, No. 10 Corretja and unseeded Roger Federer and Tommy Haas gutted out big wins as the men got down to...
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