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
Starting to wonder how much longer he is going to be playing tennis for ! Sounds stupid considering he,s only 26 but come on ! We need Nadal as ugly as his playing style is I still don,t like Mugray getting all these free rides in grand Slam Draws . Of course I know he would be seeded3rd anyway . Ferrer seeded 4th God help us !
Wow, who would've thought that so many imbecile fuckheads watch such a noble sport as tennis... people in white should've raided this place long time ago.
A wonderful thread full of clueless speculations on medical issues about which none of you is remotely qualified and that is saying something since most of the tennis analysis on here is pretty clueless as well.
It's entirely possible to have a stomach virus upset your relatively weak and short preparation (it took a long time of no tennis to get to the practice stage and they were upfront about the knees not being 100% even then) and decide that it's not the right moment to give it a shot.
Anyone who believes the stomach virus story is as gullible as they come. All about the knees. Nothing you can do even if you rest and they don't respond. Dirk Nowitzki been dealing with it for 2 years in the NBA. Brandon Roy's career will be shortened because of knee issues and Andrew Bynum's career is in question with knee issues. Nadal won't be on tour but for a few more years if even that, and I don't think he's going to be the type of guy to keep marching himself out there if he can't compete at the highest of levels. It's no coincidence Monfils and Nadal are the ones experiencing the knee issues putting question marks on the rest of their careers.
Advancements in technology and the slowing down of all surfaces has made this possible with grueling rally after grueling rally dishing out punishment a human body cannot consistently take without breaking down. It's sad really.
Anyone who believes the stomach virus story is as gullible as they come. All about the knees. Nothing you can do even if you rest and they don't respond. Dirk Nowitzki been dealing with it for 2 years in the NBA. Brandon Roy's career will be shortened because of knee issues and Andrew Bynum's career is in question with knee issues. Nadal won't be on tour but for a few more years if even that, and I don't think he's going to be the type of guy to keep marching himself out there if he can't compete at the highest of levels. It's no coincidence Monfils and Nadal are the ones experiencing the knee issues putting question marks on the rest of their careers.
Advancements in technology and the slowing down of all surfaces has made this possible with grueling rally after grueling rally dishing out punishment a human body cannot consistently take without breaking down. It's sad really.
It may take an ordinary person little time to recover from a virus and to resume engaging in ordinary activities. But the same may not be true for pro athletes.
He's probably so wiped out and unprepared that he'd be better off skipping the tournament altogether, which is what he's doing.
Probably much better for his confidence to start off w the smaller tournaments on more favorable surfaces.
It may take an ordinary person little time to recover from a virus and to resume engaging in ordinary activities. But the same may not be true for pro athletes.
I'm not an MD either. But I think it's one thing to recover enough to get back to an office job, and quite another to recover enough to get back to playing a pro sport where your body is taxed to its limits.
I'm not an MD either. But I think it's one thing to recover enough to get back to an office job, and quite another to recover enough to get back to playing a pro sport where your body is taxed to its limits.
On the other hand, super athletes like Nadal already has great aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, and her has been doing nothing but resting his body and exercise in the past 6 months.
wish delpo could've done the same and pulled out of the slams last year, fuck playing with an injury/hinderance, the record books aren't going show that
This means he will be 6th or 7th going into clay season (if he misses the complete HC season) and, if he slips up anywhere on clay, possibly 7th or 8th into RG / Wimbledon.
Crazy. He might not be able to pull out mentally with such a fall. Let's wait and see.
If its the same stomach virus that I contracted about 10 days ago then I can sort of understand the decision. This is pretty nasty and doesn't seem to just go away like most stomach viruses do. So he can't play Doha. The decision not to play the AO is probably more about not wanting to play a GS without ANY match practice in more than half a year. Understandable, I guess.
I am afraid Djokovic can be next one to pay the price because his style of play is the same as Nadal.Sliding,spliting on those hard courts soon or late your body will play the price. Why do not they
speed up the courts so their matches would not last five or six hours. It is just not fair to players,fans.
Nole never had any leg or knee problems; and Ferrer is four years older than Nadal, runs a lot and plays many grueling rallies, yet just had the best season of his career.
At least it's not mono. It'd be foolish for him to play Tipsarevic and lose to Djoker due to severe slowness. Excuses don't need to change depending on an Aussie Open loss and a clay title win a few weeks later.
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