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Oh, good you guys are all here. I didn't know if anybody would show. Cause you know how these functions sometimes go, you send out the invite but you just have no clue who's gonna attend. Anyways, happy you all could make it. So, maybe we should get down to business. I mean that's why we're all here. It's the sports on china drive.
We'll I am actually here for the crab puffs. But the sports is good too.
Federer Ends Nadal's 81-match Clay Streak
And here is somebody who is definitely no crab puff. ROGER Federer brought an end to Rafael Nadal's 81-match winning streak on clay yesterday, beating the Spaniard 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 to win the final of the Hamburg Masters and give his French Open preparations the perfect boost.
The world No. 1, who had never before beaten the Spaniard on his favorite surface, looked to be in line for his usual humbling in the red dirt as Nadal punished his Fed's brutal early mistakes to take the first set with a couple of breaks.
Federer hit back though for an early break in the second and stormed through the final set to seal his first title in five tournaments, so ending his worst slump since he became No. 1 in February 2004.
The Swiss won the Australian Open and in Dubai early in the year and has now clinched his third title of 2007.
Nadal had won 13 consecutive clay court titles, including the last two French Opens, during a winning run dating back to April 2005. The last man to beat him had been the Russian Igor Andreev in the quarterfinals in Valencia that year.
Federer earned 340,000 euros (US$458,218) for his win, Nadal half of that.
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