World number one Rafael Nadal will miss Spain's Davis Cup final against Argentina this month after failing to recover from tendinitis in his knee.
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Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal reacts during a press conference in Barcelona, Spain, yesterday. Rafael Nadal will miss Spain's Davis Cup final against Argentina because of a knee injury. The top-ranked Nadal said yesterday he's still struggling with tendinitis in his right knee. |
Nadal said it had been an extremely difficult decision and he had done everything possible to get fit.
"I am used to playing with pain but this was a new and different pain I cannot control," he said in a statement on his website (www.rafaelnadal.com).
The injury forced Nadal to pull out of the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai which began on Sunday and he also had to retire from his Paris Masters quarter-final against Nikolay Davydenko last month.
The Spanish tennis federation is expected to name its team today for the tie in Mar del Plata from Nov. 21-23.
The French Open and Wimbledon champion has previously blamed his injury on an overloaded tennis calendar.
(Agencies via Shanghai Daily November 11, 2008)