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Del Potro will not be the U.S. Open
Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro did not defend his title at the International Tennis United States, was not sufficiently recovered from surgery on his right wrist.
Del Potro has not played in the ATP tournament since the Australian Open in January because of the wrist injury.
The 21-year-old operated in May, was training for two weeks for the tournament in Flushing Meadows. Last year, there are signed his first Grand Slam triumph, beating Rafael Nadal in the semifinals and Roger Federer in the final.
The right wrist Del Potro bother him since last year. In particular, it removed the second round at Shanghai in October, because of tendinitis in the wrist.
He lost the fourth round at Melbourne in January and has not played since. Del Potro is currently ninth in the world rankings, but it will slide because of his absence from the tournament in New York
In addition to the absence of del Potro and Serena Williams, three time winner in New York, the American stage of the Grand Slam will be without Justine Henin and No. 10 men, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The tournament begins Aug. 30.
Lee Westwood back on track
Briton Lee Westwood won the St. Jude Classic, making his first win in a tournament this season. Second was the third American and Swedish Garrigus Karlsson. English pocketed $ 1 million in a PGA Tour event.
Briton Lee Westwood was today proclaimed champion St. Jude Classic golf to overcome in the play-off American Robert Garrigus and Swede Robert Karlsson. Westwood needed four-hole playoff to clinch the tournament after finishing fourth round equaled accumulated 270 hits, ten under par for the course. This victory is the first of the year for the British and the second in his PGA career.
Villegas could not be traced
For his part, Colombian Camilo Villegas, who will compete next week at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (California), Memphis finished the tournament in eighth place, tied with three American players. Villegas toured the 18 holes of the TPC Southwind on 67 hits and managed to get 12 posts about the day yesterday.
The St. Jude Golf Classic, held in Memphis (Tennessee, USA), distributed 500 points overall and $ 5.6 million, of which Wesrwood pocketed more than one million, according to the organization of the tournament PGA.
David Foster is ‘cleared’ of New Haven and is doubtful for the U.S. Open
Bad news for the Spanish courts. David Ferrer, the world number 19, has had to decline the option to play this week in New Haven (USA), where he departed as the fourth-seeded to aggravated tendinitis in his left knee, an injury that will have you in doubt face to be joining the U.S. Open.
David Ferrer
David Ferrer this week he planned to contest the tournament in New Haven, last event prior to the dispute at the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam of the season. El de Jávea departed as the fourth seed and would face in the first round to Argentine Leonardo Mayer, but eventually the party would not take place. Guilt, tendinitis that drags the last dates David, that had prevented perform 100% of faculty in recent tournaments played.
After falling in the second round of the individual table of Cincinnati Masters 1000 to Roger Federer in the quarterfinals and in the discipline of doubles, where he was paired with Tommy Robredo, David traveled to New Haven with the intention to re-do ‘double’ ie play both singles and doubles with the goal of shooting in fast track towards the U.S. Open. However, after finishing ‘touch’ the American tournament, on his arrival in New Haven was explored by doctors, who decided he should keep some days of rest to recover definitely ahead of the tendinitis in his left knee.
After passing the routine monitoring by physicians of the tournament, Ferrer travel to U.S. on Monday afternoon to be tested in a few days on the slopes of Flushing Meadows. Although, since its environment is seen precaution, tennis intention is to stay tuned for the next day 31 August, the date at which begins the last ‘big’ season. “I have spoken with my team and we agreed it would be best not to play in New Haven to try to play the U.S. Open in the best conditions. There is still a week, so I will try to recover well and training hard to get to the first game in New York in the best manner possible, “said Ferrer himself.
Nadal: “I know it is almost impossible to win here”
Rafael Nadal is now in Montreal, but said that winning this tournament again this time is “almost impossible”. “This comes very quickly and I’m not ready. I will do what it can,” said a cautious Nadal, who officially does not compete since he was eliminated in the May 31 final round of Roland Garros by the Swedish Robin Soderling.
Rafael Nadal
About U.S. Open
About the only major missing from his achievements, the United States Open, Nadal said: “It is impossible to think about it. I am talking about winning the U.S. Open and I speak to find and recover the one hundred percent of my injury” .
“My only goal for now is to prepare hard and play well here. I know it will be almost impossible to win,” he said.
“I do not know how many weeks I need. I will work hard to be ready as quickly as possible. Having suffered an injury and being unable to compete, one must be sure to find one hundred percent,” he concluded.