Rafael Nadal News

Melbourne, Australia - Rafael Nadal will miss up to four weeks of competition to recover from a knee injury that forced him to quit in the third set of his Australian Open quarterfinal against Andy Murray.

RAFAEL Nadal will drop out of the world’s top three tomorrow for the first time since his debut there in mid-2005, and although the Spaniard has been cleared of a recurrence of the knee tendonitis that sidelined him for nine weeks last year, a small muscle tear sustained at the Australian Open will prevent Nadal from playing for the next month.

UNLIKE Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, whose rivalry had been white-hot - played out on the final day of six grand-slam events - the Williams-Henin conflict was the Cold War of women’s tennis.

MELBOURNE, Australia Rafael Nadal will miss u0 to four weeks of competition to recover from a knee injur9 that forced him to quit in the third se4 of his Australian Open quarterfinal against And9 Murray.

What do tennis greats Rafael Nadal of Spain and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga from France have in common? They both use the same brand of tennis racquet, the famed Aeropro Drive from French company Babolat.

It seems barely possible that, in this very week just one year ago, the tennis world was predicting that Rafael Nadal could become only the third man in history to complete the tennis Grand Slam.

Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and partner Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia were first on court in Rod Laver Arena this morning, and needed barely an hour to beat unseeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia and Dusan Vemic of Serbia 6-4, 6-4 to reach the Australian Open men’s doubles final.

Feeling the strain: Rafael Nadal was forced to retire during third set of quarter-final against Andy Murray The world No 2 had his right knee assessed in Spain yesterday and was advised to rest completely for two weeks before another fortnight of training and medical treatment.

Federer, Tsonga into semis Roger Federer’s survives a 1st set scare against Nikolay Davydenko, while Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is also through to the semi-finals. Until this week Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had never played a five-set match.

Rafael Nadal came into the match as the slight underdog, going up against the fifth seed from Great Britain, Andy Murray.A Murray came into the game red hot, having beaten the big serve of John Isner.

Despite taking the first set in confident style, Russia’s Nikolai Davydenko couldn’t stop world No.

ANDY Murray believes he is on the verge of winning the Australian Open and ending Britain’s 74-year wait for a male Grand Slam champion.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:39 PM Tennis needs Nadal to overcome injury woes Tom Tebbutt I heard a story last night about Rafael Nadal he had just played a long night match at the Australian Open and went into the players’ restaurant to see if he could get something to eat.

Flatly rejecting favouritism, Nikolay Davydenko is only promising to run Russian run in Wednesday’s Australian Open quarter-final shootout with Roger Federer.

Rafael Nadal may have lost his quarterfinal match to Andy Murray , but he struck a devastating blow to his conqueror following the match, virtually guaranteeing that Murray will not win the title.