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Article: Spain triumphs in Davis Cup TENNIS
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Christopher Clarey The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
11-24-2008
Spain triumphs in Davis Cup TENNIS
Byline: Christopher Clarey The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: SPORTS
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina --
In retrospect - and there will be plenty of that in Argentina - it was probably tempting the Fates for local tennis authorities to stage their country's first home Davis Cup final in a sports facility officially named for the Falkland Islands.
Those islands, called the Malvinas in Spanish, were the site of a nation-shaking defeat in 1982, and their namesake arena did not bring the Argentine tennis team any better luck in 2008 as the Spanish won the Davis Cup, ...