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Rafa Nadal scratches from Indian Wells and Miami as injury flares up again
03/03/2018
A FLOOD of support and 'get well soon' messages have poured into Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal's social media sites after he announced yesterday (Friday) that his hip injury had forced him to scratch from Indian Wells and Miami.
He crashed out of the quarter-final in Melbourne during what looked set to be a tough match against Martin Cilic, and pictures released at the time showed he was clearly in extreme pain.
But believing his Australian Open disaster to be a blip, the then ATP world number one went on to enter for the Mexican Open in Acapulco this week.
His injury flared up during training ahead of the tournament, however, forcing him to scratch.
An MRI scan showed the injury was worse than he had thought, and he is now forced to withdraw from the forthcoming two Masters 1000 events in the USA.
Indian Wells is due to start on Monday, March 6 and the Miami Masters scheduled for two weeks later on the Sunday.
Having had to scratch from or retire during the last eight tournaments on the trot, Mallorca-born Rafa, 31, is clearly disappointed – now world number two after his hip problems led to Switzerland's Roger Federer's relieving him of his number one crown, Nadal had been confident of returning to the top of the ATP rankings by the end of this month.
A win in Acapulco, followed by a victory in either of the US tournaments, would have clinched it for him.
Saddened at having to let down fans, many of whom have bought tickets to Indian Wells and Miami purely to see him play, Rafa, from the famous Balearic 'pearl factory' town of Manacor, said: “It was very painful to retire from Acapulco and it's very hard as well not to play in the USA.
“I will miss you and I will do everything that's possible to be back there in 2019.”
He says he 'needs to recover' from the Acapulco injury which is 'in the same area as the one suffered in Melbourne'.
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A FLOOD of support and 'get well soon' messages have poured into Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal's social media sites after he announced yesterday (Friday) that his hip injury had forced him to scratch from Indian Wells and Miami.
He crashed out of the quarter-final in Melbourne during what looked set to be a tough match against Martin Cilic, and pictures released at the time showed he was clearly in extreme pain.
But believing his Australian Open disaster to be a blip, the then ATP world number one went on to enter for the Mexican Open in Acapulco this week.
His injury flared up during training ahead of the tournament, however, forcing him to scratch.
An MRI scan showed the injury was worse than he had thought, and he is now forced to withdraw from the forthcoming two Masters 1000 events in the USA.
Indian Wells is due to start on Monday, March 6 and the Miami Masters scheduled for two weeks later on the Sunday.
Having had to scratch from or retire during the last eight tournaments on the trot, Mallorca-born Rafa, 31, is clearly disappointed – now world number two after his hip problems led to Switzerland's Roger Federer's relieving him of his number one crown, Nadal had been confident of returning to the top of the ATP rankings by the end of this month.
A win in Acapulco, followed by a victory in either of the US tournaments, would have clinched it for him.
Saddened at having to let down fans, many of whom have bought tickets to Indian Wells and Miami purely to see him play, Rafa, from the famous Balearic 'pearl factory' town of Manacor, said: “It was very painful to retire from Acapulco and it's very hard as well not to play in the USA.
“I will miss you and I will do everything that's possible to be back there in 2019.”
He says he 'needs to recover' from the Acapulco injury which is 'in the same area as the one suffered in Melbourne'.
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