PARIS --- Like so many others who have faced Rafael Nadal, Yannick Hanfmann thought he had a plan. Until, that is, tennis' greatest clay-court player dismantled it stroke by stroke on the red dirt where he has won 11 French Open titles. "After the first two sets, you're thinking like, 'Damn,'" Hanfmann, a German ranked 184th, said after losing 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 on Monday. "It's rough." The 27-year-old former college player at the University of Southern California, who won three qualifying matches to earn the dubious honor of being Nadal's punching bag in the opening round of the main draw, didn't make a fool of himself in what was his first career match on the showcase Court Philip...
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