AS.com, June 2003
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While Johan and Jordi Cruyff may be the best-known father and son in the world of football, sporting talent often runs in the family and produces prodigious offspring who excel in different sports.
Take, for example, the ex-Belgium international Clijsters. His daughter Kim has not only climbed right up to the top five of women's tennis, but also captured the heart of the world number one, Lleyton Hewitt.
This week, a sixteen-year-old Rafael Nadal has been catching everybody's attention on the clay court of Monaco. Rafael is the nephew of Mallorca's ex-Spanish international defender Miguel Angel Nadal and has been discovered by the same coach who also discovered Moy� in their native island. Built like a small ox, he is showing plenty of fighting spirit like his uncle and is only the second player after Michael Chang to reach the world top hundred at that age. A future world number one? (16.04.03)
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