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Daily Bagel: Davis Cup trash talk

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet. • Above, watch Rafael Nadal pretend he doesn't know
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The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• Above, watch Rafael Nadal pretend he doesn't know how to return serve (starting at the 3:15 mark) in some B-roll footage from his Bacardi campaign.

• Aw, Canada is talking trash in advance of its Davis Cup tie against France. It's cute.

• How does Novak Djokovic's 2011 season stack up historically? Simon Cambers takes a look.

• The ATP crunches the numbers to see which players are the best at coming back after losing the first set. Steve Darcis? Really?

• Who isn't changing their diets these days? Venus Williams is in on the trend.

• Djokovic and his girlfriend, Jelena Ristic, stepped out for the The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 premiere in London on Wednesday night, as did Laura Robson.

• Rapper Drake is a big Serena Williams fan. We'll leave it at that for now.

• ESPN's November Tennis Power Rankings.

• So ... Flavia Pennetta's memoir should be a salacious read.

• The SI.com team assesses the 2011 WTA season.

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COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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