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CONOR Niland is by far the highest-ranked Irish tennis player of the last 20 years. His current ranking of 152 might sound unimpressive, but it means there are 1,622 fulltime tennis professionals below him in the latest standings.
However, despite that lofty status, when he was leading the Irish Davis Cup team in Dublin in a recent match against Luxembourg, more coverage was generated by Ireland rugby star Eoin Reddan coming along to support his fellow Limerickman than there was for the tie itself.See the full content of this document
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World's Top 100 Players [Eire Region]
Reddan tried his best to deflect the attention back on Niland. 'Being (that highly ranked) in the world, most people probably don't understand how good that is. In rugby terms it's probably the equivalent of winning the He...
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