สำหรับ Exhibition แมทช์แรกที่นาดาลลงเล่นกับฮิววิตต์ไปเมื่อวานนี้ ที่ Hurlingham club ปรากฎว่านาดาลแพ้ฮิววิตต์ไป 4-6,3-6 นาดาลบอกไว้ในเว็บไซด์ส่วนตัวของเค้าว่า
"I love to play at the Hurlingham Club," "Today's match was a real test, as close to reality as it could get. I will come back and play again [Friday] and then make my decision about playing at Wimbledon or not."
หนังสือพิมพ์ The Guardian newspaper อ้างคำพูดของลุง Toni โค้ชและลุงของนาดาลเอาไว้ว่า
"At the moment it's very difficult to play at Wimbledon, his knees are not good, he cannot bend. This is his first match, we wait."
Nadals struggle leaves Wimbledon in doubt By MATTIAS KAREN, AP Sports Writer
LONDON (AP)Rafael Nadal looked hampered by his injured knees during a 6-4, 6-3 loss to Lleyton Hewitt in an exhibition Thursday.
He will decide Friday if he can defend his Wimbledon title.
Nadal played without tape on his knees but frequently appeared a step slow on the grass court at Hurlingham Club. This was Nadals first match since his loss to Robin Soderling in the fourth round of the French Open. He pulled out of last weeks grass-court tournament at Queens Club to rest his knees.
Nadal looked increasingly frustrated against the hard-serving Hewitt, repeatedly failing to get to balls he normally reaches and struggling with unforced backhand errors. He frequently muttered to himself in Spanish after missed shots and often had to rely on his top-spin forehand to escape trouble.
He did not speak to reporters, but uncle and coach Toni Nadal said it was still uncertain whether he can play at Wimbledon, which starts Monday.
Nadal plays another match Friday against Stanislas Wawrinka. Toni Nadal said the top-ranked player will decide after that. When pressed about Wimbledon, the coach did not sound optimistic.
If its me, Im (flying) to Mallorca, he said, referring to the island where Nadal grew up.
Nadal has struggled with knee problems for months and missed last years Davis Cup final after he was diagnosed with tendinitis in November.
Toni Nadal said his nephews main problem is bending properly, and wearing some kind of support wouldnt help. He said Nadal has been receiving treatment during his week in London, but its not enough.
In the other singles match Thursday at the small private club by the River Thames, Tomas Berdych beat Marat Safin 7-6 (7), 6-4.
Hewitt challenged Nadal from the start, forcing the Spaniard to save two break points in the first game before holding serve. The former top-ranked Australian then managed to break at love for a 3-2 lead after three unforced errors from Nadal. Hewitt held his next service game at love behind a barrage of aces.
Nadal had his first break point in the first game of the second set, but Hewitt saved it with a service winner. Nadal set up another break point at 2-2 with a good forehand volley, but Hewitt made a forehand winner down the line before holding.
Hewitt then broke again for a 4-3 lead after Nadal sent a forehand long, and the Australian converted his second match point after Nadal sent a lunging backhand long.
Iconic sports fashion label Fred Perry unveiled the new tennis kit to be worn by Andy Murray at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships on Monday.
In celebration of the centenary year of Perrys birth, Murray has worked closely with Fred Perry designers to develop a blend of performance and heritage product referencing classic Fred Perry kit from the 1950s and 1960s.
The kit features a full range of clothing from a white collared performance shirt and tailored shorts to an ivory cotton cable v-neck sweater, white cotton tennis bomber jacket and white kit bag.
Every item in the kit features Andy Murrays initials stitched underneath the Fred Perry laurel, inspired by the bespoke shirts that Perry designed for clients and friends such as John F Kennedy and Billie Jean King.
The Fred Perry brand has supplied clothing to Andy Murray since 2004 and has been working with Murray over the past 12 months to develop todays outfit.
World No. 3 Murray goes into the Wimbledon Championships as the highest ranked British tennis player since Perry.
Andy Murray said:
I am proud to be associated with the Fred Perry brand and to be wearing an outfit inspired one of my sporting heroes. The kit looks and feels great - Ive already tested it out on the courts and look forward to wearing it at Wimbledon next week. I hope one day to follow in Fred Perrys footsteps and repeat his success at Wimbledon.
John Flynn, Managing Director at Fred Perry said: We have worked with Andy for five years now and he is a fantastic ambassador both on and off the tennis court. This is a significant year for the brand as we celebrate 100 years since the birth of Fred Perry and Andy wearing this kit at Wimbledon is a fitting tribute. His exclusively designed outfit uses quality performance fabrics to create a tailored look Im sure Fred Perry would be proud!
The Fred Perry 100 year Andy Murray tennis outfit includes:
White performance Fred Perry shirt with green laurel and tipping White performance tailored cotton shorts Ivory knitted cotton cable v-neck sweater Ivory knitted cotton cable slip-over White cotton tennis bomber White leather tennis kit bag
This outfit will be worn exclusively by Andy and his brother Jamie at Wimbledon.
By freakyfrites on June 18 2009. Has written 757 posts. 862 views
The question of the tournament remains unanswered: Will Rafa play at Wimbledon or not?
Rafael Nadal played an exhibition match against Lleyton Hewitt today at Londons Hurlingham Club and things did not go well for the Spaniard. CBSSports.com reports that Rafa, who is suffering from tendinitis in both knees, was limited during his loss to Hewitt, 6-4. 6-3. The Spaniard looked a step slow and made a number of unforced errors.
Nadal is scheduled to play another exo match against Stanislas Wawrinka tomorrow.
Heres the money quote from Uncle Toni:
Its the first match (on grass), and well have to wait until tomorrow, Toni Nadal said. I dont know. Well have to wait until tomorrow, and well see then.
When pressed about Nadals chances of playing at Wimbledon, his coach did not sound optimistic.
If its me, Im (flying) to Mallorca, he said, referring to the island Nadal grew up on. This comes after the promising news yesterday that Nadal and Andy Murray practiced together at Wimbledon. Andy Murray told The Telegraph afterwards: Rafa was hitting the ball well.
*UPDATE* Via Rafas website:
I love to play at the Hurlingham Club. Todays match was a real test, as close to reality as it could get. I will come back and play again and then make my decision about playing at Wimbledon or not. Rafa will hold a press conference tomorrow after his match, where he should announce his final decision re: Wimbledon. Come on Stan, let Rafa win tomorrow and get some confidence! The tennis world needs Nadal on Centre Court!
Former world number three Ivan Ljubicic limped out of the Eastbourne International after injuring his ankle in a heavy fall.
More StoriesInjured Monfils out of Wimbledon Women: Wozniack last seed left Men's drawsheet Four days before Wimbledon begins the tall Croatian winced in agony as he was helped off court by a trainer, to applause from the Devonshire Park crowd, after being forced out of his quarter-final against fourth-seeded Frenchman Fabrice Santoro.
Ljubicic, who has dropped to 30th in the world after being troubled by back and hamstring injuries last year, had won the first set 6-3 and was 2-4 down in the second.
Racing to the net to reach one of Santoro's trademark delicate shots, he skidded on the grass, fell and cried out in agony, clutching his left ankle.
Santoro, playing his last year on the ATP Tour at the age of 36, threw off his cap, dropped his racket and ran to the court-side freezer to fetch bags of ice which he applied to Ljubicic's ankle while officials summoned the trainer.
Tour officials said the Croatian, who has never gone beyond the third round at Wimbledon, would have an MRI scan later on Thursday.
"It is not a typical ankle twist but we are not 100 percent sure what it is. We will have to find out how long it will take after the evaluation," Ljubicic said via an ATP spokesman, adding that he was "very disappointed".
Ljubicic's retirement gave Santoro a place in the semi-finals of the new men's event.
1 Rafael Nadal ESP (1) vs Arnaud Clement FRA 2 Lleyton Hewitt AUS vs Robby Ginepri USA 3 Rajeev Ram USA vs Philipp Petzschner GER 4 Mischa Zverev GER vs Dmitry Tursunov RUS (25) 5 Radek Stepanek CZE (23) vs Alejandro Falla COL 6 Potito Starace ITA vs Jose Acasuso ARG 7 Fabio Fognini ITA vs Denis Istomin UZB 8 Kevin Kim USA vs David Ferrer ESP (16)
9 Nikolay Davydenko RUS (12) vs Daniel Evans GBR 10 Victor Crivoi ROU vs Bjorn Phau GER 11 Frederico Gil POR vs Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA 12 Alex Bogdanovic GBR vs Tomas Berdych CZE (20) 13 Jurgen Melzer AUT (26) vs Wayne Odesnik USA 14 Benjamin Becker GER vs Roko Karanusic CRO 15 Grigor Dimitrov BUL vs Igor Kunitsyn RUS 16 Jeremy Chardy FRA vs Andy Roddick USA (6)
17 Andy Murray GBR (3) vs Robert Kendrick USA 18 Riccardo Ghedin ITA vs Ernests Gulbis LAT 19 Taylor Dent USA vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver ESP 20 Brian Dabul ARG vs Viktor Troicki SRB (30) 21 Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (19) vs Eduardo Schwank ARG 22 Pablo Andujar ESP vs Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG 23 Christophe Rochus BEL vs Pablo Cuevas URU 24 Jesse Levine USA vs Marat Safin RUS (14)
25 Fernando Gonzalez CHI (10) vs Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS 26 Oscar Hernandez ESP vs Leonardo Mayer ARG 27 Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP vs Mikhail Youzhny RUS 28 Fabrice Santoro FRA vs James Blake USA (17) 29 Victor Hanescu ROU (31) vs Ivan Navarro ESP 30 Nicolas Devilder FRA vs Nicolas Lapentti ECU 31 Nicolas Kiefer GER vs Andrei Pavel ROU 32 Bobby Reynolds USA vs Gilles Simon FRA (8)
33 Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (5) vs Andreas Seppi ITA 34 Adrian Mannarino FRA vs Marc Gicquel FRA 35 Paul Capdeville CHI vs Vincent Spadea USA 36 Evgeny Korolev RUS vs Igor Andreev RUS (29) 37 Tommy Haas GER (24) vs Alexander Peya AUT 38 Michael Llodra FRA vs Joshua Goodall GBR 39 Sam Querrey USA vs Ivan Ljubicic CRO 40 Alberto Martin ESP vs Marin Cilic CRO (11)
41 Tommy Robredo ESP (15) vs Luka Gregorc SLO 42 Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA vs Stefan Koubek AUT 43 Dudi Sela ISR vs Santiago Gonzalez MEX 44 Xavier Malisse BEL vs Rainer Schuettler GER (18) 45 Mardy Fish USA (28) vs Sergio Roitman ARG 46 Jan Hernych CZE vs Janko Tipsarevic SRB 47 Simon Greul GER vs Michael Yani USA 48 Julien Benneteau FRA vs Novak Djokovic SRB (4)
49 Fernando Verdasco ESP (7) vs James Ward GBR 50 Nicolas Mahut FRA vs Kristof Vliegen BEL 51 Diego Junqueira ARG vs Guillermo Canas ARG 52 Grega Zemlja SLO vs Albert Montanes ESP (32) 53 Ivo Karlovic CRO (22) vs Lukas Lacko SVK 54 Steve Darcis BEL vs Frank Dancevic CAN 55 Simone Bolelli ITA vs Daniel Koellerer AUT 56 Andrey Golubev KAZ vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (9)
57 Robin Soderling SWE (13) vs Gilles Muller LUX 58 Marcel Granollers ESP vs Andreas Beck GER 59 Nicolas Almagro ESP vs Juan Monaco ARG 60 Marcos Baghdatis CYP vs Feliciano Lopez ESP (21) 61 Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (27) vs Florent Serra FRA 62 Ivo Minar CZE vs Maximo Gonzalez ARG 63 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP vs Agustin Calleri ARG 64 Yen-Hsun Lu TPE vs Roger Federer SUI (2)
1 Dinara Safina RUS (1) vs Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP 2 Nicole Vaidisova CZE vs Rossana De Los Rios PAR 3 Elena Baltacha GBR vs Alona Bondarenko UKR 4 Kirsten Flipkens BEL vs Agnes Szavay HUN (30) 5 Amelie Mauresmo FRA (17) vs Melinda Czink HUN 6 Katarina Srebotnik SLO vs Aiko Nakamura JPN 7 Vania King USA vs Mariya Koryttseva UKR 8 Nuria Llagostera Vives ESP vs Flavia Pennetta ITA (15)
9 Caroline Wozniacki DEN (9) vs Kimiko Date Krumm JPN 10 Petra Kvitova CZE vs Maria Kirilenko RUS 11 Alberta Brianti ITA vs Tathiana Garbin ITA 12 Marta Domachowska POL vs Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP (20) 13 Anna Chakvetadze RUS (32) vs Sabine Lisicki GER 14 Patricia Mayr AUT vs Anne Keothavong GBR 15 Pauline Parmentier FRA vs Akgul Amanmuradova UZB 16 Akiko Morigami JPN vs Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (5)
17 Venus Williams USA (3) vs Stefanie Voegele SUI 18 Anastasija Sevastova LAT vs Kateryna Bondarenko UKR 19 Ekaterina Makarova RUS vs Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE 20 Carla Suarez Navarro ESP vs Kaia Kanepi EST (25) 21 Samantha Stosur AUS (18) vs Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA 22 Jelena Dokic AUS vs Tatjana Malek GER 23 Sara Errani ITA vs Stephanie Dubois CAN 24 Lucie Hradecka CZE vs Ana Ivanovic SRB (13)
25 Agnieszka Radwanska POL (11) vs Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez ESP 26 Alexa Glatch USA vs Shuai Peng CHN 27 Olga Govortsova BLR vs Tatiana Perebiynis UKR 28 Galina Voskoboeva KAZ vs Na Li CHN (19) 29 Sybille Bammer AUT (29) vs Melanie Oudin USA 30 Monica Niculescu ROU vs Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ 31 Katie O'Brien GBR vs Iveta Benesova CZE 32 Julia Goerges GER vs Jelena Jankovic SRB (6)
33 Vera Zvonareva RUS (7) vs Georgie Stoop GBR 34 Melanie South GBR vs Mathilde Johansson FRA 35 Jill Craybas USA vs Tsvetana Pironkova BUL 36 Tamira Paszek AUT vs Virginie Razzano FRA (26) 37 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN (23) vs Francesca Schiavone ITA 38 Michelle Larcher De Brito POR vs Klara Zakopalova CZE 39 Timea Bacsinszky SUI vs Vesna Manasieva RUS 40 Yung-Jan Chan TPE vs Marion Bartoli FRA (12)
41 Dominika Cibulkova SVK (14) vs Julie Coin FRA 42 Masa Zec Peskiric SLO vs Urszula Radwanska POL 43 Yanina Wickmayer BEL vs Elena Vesnina RUS 44 Vera Dushevina RUS vs Alize Cornet FRA (22) 45 Alisa Kleybanova RUS (27) vs Sesil Karatantcheva KAZ 46 Karolina Sprem CRO vs Regina Kulikova RUS 47 Aravane Rezai FRA vs Ayumi Morita JPN 48 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS vs Elena Dementieva RUS (4)
49 Victoria Azarenka BLR (8) vs Severine Bremond Beltrame FRA 50 Nathalie Dechy FRA vs Ioana Raluca Olaru ROU 51 Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER vs Sania Mirza IND 52 Edina Gallovits ROU vs Sorana Cirstea ROU (28) 53 Maria Sharapova RUS (24) vs Viktoriya Kutuzova UKR 54 Gisela Dulko ARG vs Stephanie Foretz FRA 55 Maria Elena Camerin ITA vs Shahar Peer ISR 56 Anastasiya Yakimova BLR vs Nadia Petrova RUS (10)
57 Jie Zheng CHN (16) vs Kristina Barrois GER 58 Daniela Hantuchova SVK vs Laura Robson GBR 59 Tamarine Tanasugarn THA vs Arantxa Parra Santonja ESP 60 Ai Sugiyama JPN vs Patty Schnyder SUI (21) 61 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (31) vs Petra Cetkovska CZE 62 Roberta Vinci ITA vs Magdalena Rybarikova SVK 63 Lucie Safarova CZE vs Jarmila Groth AUS 64 Neuza Silva POR vs Serena Williams USA (2)
Spain's Rafael Nadal serves during an exhibition match against Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka in which Nadal lost at the Hurlingham Club, in London, Friday June 19, 2009.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP)Marcos Baghdatis has withdrawn from Wimbledon due to a knee injury. He has been replaced by Karol Beck of Slovakia.
The 95th-ranked Cypriot, a Wimbledon semifinalist and Australian Open finalist in 2006, had been drawn Friday to play the 21st-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain in the first round.
Baghdatis had pulled out of his second-round match at the Ordina Open in the Netherlands on Wednesday, citing a knee problem.
Nadal withdraws from Wimbledon Friday, 19 June 2009 Written by Byron Vale
Rafael Nadal has announced he will not defend his Wimbledon title.
The world number one and top seed had said after the French Open that he would not play Wimbledon if he was not 100% and so it has come to pass.
"Im here and I'm just not 100%. I'm better than what I was a couple of weeks ago but I dont feel right," Nadal told a packed press conference on Friday evening at the All England Club.
"To not play Wimbledon is one of the toughest decisions of my career."
After suffering a shock defeat in the French Open to Robin Soderling, Nadal received treatment on his knees in Barcelona and skipped the traditional Wimbledon warm-up at Queens in an effort to be fit for The Championships. He was diagnosed with tendinitis in both quadriceps tendons as well as a small amount of fluid on the kneecaps.
"I tried everything. I didn't feel terrible but also not close to my best. When I enter a tournament my goal is winning and my feeling right now is I'm not ready to win.
"It's very painful for me but I can't play at the tournament this year. It's tough but it is what it is."
Nadal's absence will cause a reshuffle in the mens singles draw. Number five seed Juan Martin Del Potro replaces Nadal at the top of the draw. The 17th seed James Blake moves to line 65 to take Del Potro's position. Nicolas Kiefer moves to line 56 to take Blake's position and lucky loser Thiago Alves takes Kiefer's position on line 61.
Nadal revealed that he had been playing with considerable pain and he didn't know how long he would be out of tennis. But he said he expected to fully recover from his knee problems and that he would have a "long career".
"I played with some problems on the knee for the last few months. I've been making efforts to play week after week. The truth is that sportsmen always play with pain and don't know where the limit is, where you can get to. I think I reached that limit now.
"I will work very hard to comeback as soon as possible. One of the problems is Im thinking more about the knees than what is happening on court and its very difficult to play like that."
When Nadal was asked about his many fans and how disappointed they would be that he was not appearing at Wimbledon, the 23-year-old replied: "no more than me".
Nadal also said he was not concerned that his absence would open the door for Roger Federer to reclaim the number one world ranking. "If I lose the number one ranking Im going to accept it like the four years I was number two and work hard to improve and recover."
Official ruling. If seeds 1-4 withdraw before the order of play is released on Sunday, the fifth seed takes their place in the draw. The 17th seed takes the place of the fifth seed.
1 Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (5) vs Arnaud Clement FRA 2 Lleyton Hewitt AUS vs Robby Ginepri USA 3 Rajeev Ram USA vs Philipp Petzschner GER 4 Mischa Zverev GER vs Dmitry Tursunov RUS (25) 5 Radek Stepanek CZE (23) vs Alejandro Falla COL 6 Potito Starace ITA vs Jose Acasuso ARG 7 Fabio Fognini ITA vs Denis Istomin UZB 8 Kevin Kim USA vs David Ferrer ESP (16) 9 Nikolay Davydenko RUS (12) vs Daniel Evans GBR 10 Victor Crivoi ROU vs Bjorn Phau GER 11 Frederico Gil POR vs Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA 12 Alex Bogdanovic GBR vs Tomas Berdych CZE (20) 13 Jurgen Melzer AUT (26) vs Wayne Odesnik USA 14 Benjamin Becker GER vs Roko Karanusic CRO 15 Grigor Dimitrov BUL vs Igor Kunitsyn RUS 16 Jeremy Chardy FRA vs Andy Roddick USA (6)
17 Andy Murray GBR (3) vs Robert Kendrick USA 18 Riccardo Ghedin ITA vs Ernests Gulbis LAT 19 Taylor Dent USA vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver ESP 20 Brian Dabul ARG vs Viktor Troicki SRB (30) 21 Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (19) vs Eduardo Schwank ARG 22 Pablo Andujar ESP vs Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG 23 Christophe Rochus BEL vs Pablo Cuevas URU 24 Jesse Levine USA vs Marat Safin RUS (14) 25 Fernando Gonzalez CHI (10) vs Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS 26 Oscar Hernandez ESP vs Leonardo Mayer ARG 27 Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP vs Mikhail Youzhny RUS 28 Fabrice Santoro FRA vs Nicolas Kiefer GER (33) 29 Victor Hanescu ROU (31) vs Ivan Navarro ESP 30 Nicolas Devilder FRA vs Nicolas Lapentti ECU 31 Thiago Alves BRA vs Andrei Pavel ROU 32 Bobby Reynolds USA vs Gilles Simon FRA (8)
33 James Blake USA (17) vs Andreas Seppi ITA 34 Adrian Mannarino FRA vs Marc Gicquel FRA 35 Paul Capdeville CHI vs Vincent Spadea USA 36 Evgeny Korolev RUS vs Igor Andreev RUS (29) 37 Tommy Haas GER (24) vs Alexander Peya AUT 38 Michael Llodra FRA vs Joshua Goodall GBR 39 Sam Querrey USA vs Ivan Ljubicic CRO 40 Alberto Martin ESP vs Marin Cilic CRO (11) 41 Tommy Robredo ESP (15) vs Luka Gregorc SLO 42 Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA vs Stefan Koubek AUT 43 Dudi Sela ISR vs Santiago Gonzalez MEX 44 Xavier Malisse BEL vs Rainer Schuettler GER (18) 45 Mardy Fish USA (28) vs Sergio Roitman ARG 46 Jan Hernych CZE vs Janko Tipsarevic SRB 47 Simon Greul GER vs Michael Yani USA 48 Julien Benneteau FRA vs Novak Djokovic SRB (4)
49 Fernando Verdasco ESP (7) vs James Ward GBR 50 Nicolas Mahut FRA vs Kristof Vliegen BEL 51 Diego Junqueira ARG vs Guillermo Canas ARG 52 Grega Zemlja SLO vs Albert Montanes ESP (32) 53 Ivo Karlovic CRO (22) vs Lukas Lacko SVK 54 Steve Darcis BEL vs Frank Dancevic CAN 55 Simone Bolelli ITA vs Daniel Koellerer AUT 56 Andrey Golubev KAZ vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (9) 57 Robin Soderling SWE (13) vs Gilles Muller LUX 58 Marcel Granollers ESP vs Andreas Beck GER 59 Nicolas Almagro ESP vs Juan Monaco ARG 60 Karol Beck SVK vs Feliciano Lopez ESP (21) 61 Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (27) vs Florent Serra FRA 62 Ivo Minar CZE vs Maximo Gonzalez ARG 63 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP vs Agustin Calleri ARG 64 Yen-Hsun Lu TPE vs Roger Federer SUI (2)
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