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It’s not always tennis that energizes defending Australian Open champion Rafael Nadal. The highlight of his day Friday? He said it was his victory with Argentine Juan Monaco in a PlayStation soccer game against two Spanish players. “I know it sounds bad saying this for many reasons . . . because tennis is why we are here and that is the priority, and because it is not nice to promote your own victories,” Nadal wrote in Saturday’s Q&A blog for the Melbourne Herald Sun. “But it was such an important match, so much tension in it and everything, that I had to mention it!” The Associated Press, AP photo
