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| Nadal to miss Australian Open due to illness Posted: 28 Dec 2012 08:05 AM PST
"My knee is much better and the rehabilitation process has gone well as predicted by the doctors, but this virus didn't allow me to practise this past week," the Spaniard, who has also pulled out of the Qatar Open in Doha, said in a statement. "Therefore I am sorry to announce that I will not play in Doha and the Australian Open, as we had initially scheduled." Nadal (picture) was due to make his competitive comeback after the knee injury sidelined him for six months at an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi this week. The 26-year-old has not played since June when he suffered a shock defeat in the second round of Wimbledon to Czech Lukas Rosol. He had won the exhibition event in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 and 2011. Nadal said doctors had advised a period of rest without any sport for the next seven days starting today. "As my team and doctors say, the safest thing to do is to do things well and this virus has delayed my plans of playing these weeks," he said. "I will have to wait until the Acapulco tournament (at the end of February) to compete again although I could consider to play before at any other ATP event. "I always said that my return to competition will be when I am in the right conditions to play and after all this time away from the courts I rather not accelerate the comeback and prefer to do things well." — Reuters |
| Liverpool’s Suarez fit to face QPR Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:38 AM PST  Liverpool's Luis Suarez throws a drink bottle from the pitch during their English Premier League soccer match against Stoke City at The Britannia stadium in Stoke-on-Trent, northern England, December 26, 2012. — Reuters pic The Uruguay international, who has scored 11 times in the league this season, took a knock to the ankle during the midweek defeat at Stoke City. "Luis will be fine," Rodgers told a news conference. "He's a real robust player and is very rarely in the treatment room. "He's been playing with a bad ankle for a couple of weeks and took a heavy knock the other night, but he's fine," added Rodgers. Liverpool are 10th in the league with 25 points, 21 behind leaders Manchester United and eight adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur. — Reuters |
MADRID, Dec 28 — French Open champion Rafa Nadal has been forced to withdraw from next month's Australian Open because of a stomach virus that has disrupted his recovery from a knee injury, the world number four said today.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Sports To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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