The Boston Globe, July 7th, 2003
LONDON - Fortunately for that old Greek travelin' man, Odysseus, he was barely able to avoid the clutches of Scylla, the man-eating monster, and Charybdis, the deadly whirlpool. But in making his odyssey through the perils of Wimbledon the young Greek travelin' man, Mark Philippoussis, discovered, to his distress, that those ancient hazards had a pres ent-day counterpart named Roger Federer. Scylla and Charybdis, according to the venerable scribbler Homer, lurked in the Mediterranean. Federer came out of Basel, Switzerland, to sink the teeth of his man-beating serve into Philippoussis, and kep...
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