Confirmed: out for 4 weeks
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Sorry to our Dutch contingent, but Rafa will miss the Rotterdam tournament: Nadal out for four weeks: agent
Rafael Nadal will miss at least four weeks of competition due to the knee injury that forced him out of the Australian Open, his agent announced Friday.
Doctors recommended the Spaniard take two weeks and rest and recovery, after he underwent an MRI scan on Thursday in Barcelona that revealed a hamstring injury in his right knee.
“Once this period is over and according to the results … he will progressively return to sporting activity,” the agent said in a statement.
“The total time for his recovery is estimated at four weeks.”
“I’m not pleased about missing the Rotterdam tournament. I would have liked to win the title after coming very close last year,” Nadal was quoted as saying in the statement.
“I know that this injury is not the same as the one I suffered last year,” he said.
But he said he is not concerned losing his place as world number two.
“It’s normal, the most important is that I recover my game.”
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I’m going to the semifinals of the ABN amro tournament…
I was hoping to see Rafa there, but I understand that he won’t come.
It’s better to rest, than play with his bad knee.
Good luck, Rafa
and I hope to see you soon! :)
I’m going as well, so I know what you mean…
Read that Rafa’s not alone in the injury dept fm AO 10:
Del Potro’s wrist hurts. Soderling’s wrist hurts. Roddick’s shoulder and knee hurts. Serena’s got a leg injury. Hewitt with that hip. Tsonga has a stomach muscle injury.
Some good news and some bad news about injury. Uncle Toni talks
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/08022010/58/nadal-recovery-well.html