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Nadal OUT of the Australian Open

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Craig Gabriel ‏@crosscourt1
JUST IN - official. Rafa Nadal is out of the Australian Open due to stomach virus.

Jon Wertheim ‏@jon_wertheim
From the camp : Rafa Nadal will not play DOHA & MELBOURNE... a stomach virus makes him stop his rehabilitation and thinks in the new season

Other tennis folk on twiter are saying it too.

Made a new topic as it is big news, merge it in a few hours.

This can't be just from a virus... this smells like a cover up
 
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Better for his knees to start playing on the Golden Swing, like someone said before, he might even skip IW/Miami.
 
#107 ·
Just like Federer, when Rafa can't disguise his serve, he loses. Difference is, Rafa actually beat each multiple-Slam champion 12+ times.
 
#110 ·
anyway, matt ebden takes his place (which means extra WC for aussie) so at least some of the aussies won't cry
Ebden was in already as Fish, Nalbandian and Zopp were out.

It's De Schepper who should benefit from the place as Mahut should get in directly rather than from the French wild-card.

Other beneficiary : Raonic will be seeded 12 then avoid a top-4 in R16.
 
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Everythinbg about it is weird and suspicious. He´s been out of the tour for over 6 months already, if his knees are still an issue, why rush the comeback at all, they must have known best-of-5 matches on hard courts would be tough. The SA-clay swing is not that far away, why not wait until then? Plenty of good warm up-tourneys on softer surface + Acapulco 500?

If the knees are fine and he is fit, no stomach bug would jeopardise the AO, he´d still have time to recover. If he is not fit, playing Doha wouldn´t have changed it anyway. Then it´s back to the original question: Why rush the comeback to begin with??

I don´t know what, but there is something fishy about it, I don´t buy the stomach virus-explanation at all.
 
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Everythinbg about it is weird and suspicious. He´s been out of the tour for over 6 months already, if his knees are still an issue, why rush the comeback at all, they must have known best-of-5 matches on hard courts would be tough. The SA-clay swing is not that far away, why not wait until then? Plenty of good warm up-tourneys on softer surface + Acapulco 500?
it seems that knees were still an issue, but they still hoped to be OK for the AO, but finally they decided not and to do like what you say : go back on clay for the SA swing.
 
#115 ·
Roger needs to win #18 here. I think it's the last chance
 
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More precisions on tennis.com : http://www.tennis.com/news/2012/12/reports-nadal-pulls-out-australian-open/45776/#.UN3L0RpbjKQ

Doctors have advised that Nadal take a week-long period of rest without training, beginning today. He will then be examined and have an x-ray in four to five days.

“Rafa suffered last week a viral process that provoked a gastroenteritis with high fever for four to five days,” said Angel Ruiz-Cotorro, who heads Nadal’s medical team and is the director of the Mapfre Center for Tennis Medicine. “Starting next week he won’t be in sufficient physical conditions to continue with his rehabilitation process.”
x-rays are probably for his knees, not for the virus :confused:
 
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