This was the earliest the pair had met in a regular tournament since 2004, when Nadal won their first meeting in the third round of the Sony Open Tennis in Miami.

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The tournament begins Tuesday with a pair of games in Dayton, Ohio.

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They have faced each other 18 times in this tournament, more often than any other pair of teams, and nearly always with something more than pride on the line: Together, these two goliaths have won 13 of the 56 Champions League titles, more than one fifth of the total number.

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But Angus Fraser, Middlesex's managing director of cricket, believes that his county need compensation for the pair of players they are set to lose to the tournament.

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But the embarrassing miss was soon forgotten as Bowe continued his heroics with his pair of tries -- taking his tally to five for the tournament in three games -- and Sexton converted both.

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Both Zidane and Marco Materazzi found the net in the 2006 final in Germany between France and Italy, but it was the pair's off-the-ball clash deep into extra time that became the tournament's defining moment.

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"It is just a pair of lucky boxer shorts that I used in the first game as well and have used before the tournament, " Bendtner told reporters.

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The pair beat the previous record of a 4hr 19min encounter between Barbora Zahlavova Strycova and Regina Kulikova in the same tournament last year.

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