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
if it's really what they will announce, now Nadal's team should clearly hold a press conference because there will be plenty of rumours ... they should hold a conference to counter crazy things.
Craig Gabriel @crosscourt1
With Nadal not playing till Acapulco (25 Feb), means by then it would be 8 mths since last official match - 2nd RD Wimbledon
If these early reports are indeed factual, then there is definitely a lot more going on with Nadal than meets the eye here. So he's spent the last few weeks training hard, a mystery stomach virus arises in the days before his supposed comeback and now because of this said virus, he is now consequently withdrawing from the Australian Open? In my opinion there is no way he is pulling out because of that. It's either the knee is still bothering him or he is mentally not ready to compete again. The thought of permanently damaging his knees combined with the lofty expectations of him upon his return to action may be overwhelming him a little....
I don't want to spread rumours but my brother had told me last week-end (don't know from which source but my brother is a Nadal-fan) that Carlos Moya had said somewhere that he had practised with Nadal recently and his movement didn't look good at all, his practise seemed to be still limited.
Now, I would much prefer Nadal's team to tell precise news than me to spread rumours :shrug:
No way that stomach virus thing is true. I refuse to think that an athlete that was side lined for 6 months by his knees and is eager to be back on the court can do something so stupid as to get himself sick by a virus.
According to twitter uncle foni said it made no sense for his first tournament back to be best of 5 sets. So basically he doesn't think he has any chance of winning so he's not going to compete.
Clay vulture has doubts about winning Bo5 on hard and skips.. what happens when ranking drops to #5-8?
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