Quote:Nadal geeft Krajicek hoop

BARCELONA - Toptennisser Rafael Nadal heeft donderdagavond bij terugkeer in Spanje toernooidirecteur Richard Krajicek hoop gegeven.

© ANPDe nummer twee van de wereldranglijst liet de verzamelde pers op het vliegveld in Barcelona weten dat zijn knieblessure hem waarschijnlijk niet lang aan de kant zal houden.

''Ik maak me geen zorgen. Ik heb slechts last van een kleine verrekking. Ik hoop dat ik binnen een week of misschien nog wel sneller weer helemaal hersteld ben'', zei Nadal, die dinsdag in de kwartfinales van de Australian Open tegen de Schot Andy Murray moest opgeven.

Grondig onderzoek

De Spanjaard is de publiekstrekker van het ABN Amro World Tournament dat op 8 februari in Rotterdam begint.

Krajicek hoopt vrijdagmiddag meer duidelijkheid te krijgen uit het Nadal-kamp. De 23-jarige geweldenaar laat eerst zijn knie nog grondig onderzoeken in een kliniek.

Niet voluit

Nadal heeft al langere tijd last van het gewricht. Vorig jaar kon hij in de finale van het ABN Amro-toernooi tegen winnaar Murray niet voluit gaan.

Later kon hij zijn titel op Wimbledon niet verdedigen en keerde hij pas na een pauze van twee maanden terug in het ATP-circuit.

Quote:Nadal will be out for a month ... at least

After solving their problems in the foot with the templates, the knees have now become the main Achilles heel of Spanish • He will miss at least the tournament in Rotterdam and the Davis Cup

Rafael Nadal at noon yesterday morning in Melbourne. There was no hurry because his flight back to Spain, via Doha, leaving at 23.00. He left the hotel with his agent at Nike, Jordi Robert, and his face reflected the concern of the results reported yesterday BRAND. If confirmed as suffering a torn quadriceps tendon in his right leg, the tennis player will at least for a month, which will miss Rotterdam and the Davis Cup, while their share in Indian Wells will be a mystery. A total of 1,300 locations, without defense, relegating him to sixth in the ATP rankings. He would advance so hopelessly Andy Murray and Juan Martin Del Potro in the world rankings.

To clarify the diagnosis and extent of the injury, Nadal will take place this afternoon an MRI in the clinic TOP of Barcelona, under the supervision of your doctor Angel Ruiz Cotorro. The ultrasound imaging was done in Melbourne at the conclusion of his quarterfinal match with Andy Murray, revealed a tear in the quadriceps tendon. Depending on the amount of broken fibers, the most damaged and the biomechanics of player-for a lefty is worst right leg injury, will establish the final time low. But the reality is that the 30 days of planned Nadal preseason to prepare the hardcourt U.S. tour will become a heavy and lengthy rehabilitation.

On 25 April 2005, Rafa was planted in the top ten, thanks to titles in Monte Carlo and Barcelona. I did not quit despite the privileged position of five lesions, some of them repeated, which have deprived him of participating in Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the 2004 Games, at the Masters Cup in Shanghai in 2005 and 2008, in the Open de Australia 2006; in the final of the Davis Cup in 2008 and the latest edition of Wimbledon. Altogether has been off the track 346 days.

His former was the Achilles heel of foot, pronation settled with templates, and has now gone to his knees. Federer, however, chains in Australia 41 appearances in all four majors. In the next four months, the Spaniard faces a steep mountain with 4580 points and only has room to add it in 2009 completed a dream start in left to score only 1420 points.

The less now for Nadal are the addition and subtraction. The important thing is how much time will be low and if not will fall in the knees, a joint in which he suffers chronic tendinitis. "No matter be 2 to 5. If you're at a good level and I in Australia, the results end up being late or early," he said. The player wanted to think he had nothing but I knew something serious had enough to force him to leave the game with Murray. Neither Gasquet in the second round at Estoril in 2004 with a scaphoid fracture in his left foot, he had done.

It was a bad signal confirming Toni Nadal. "There is something in there and it's different from last year," read before you pack. "It was I who told him to leave. He wanted to continue, but there is a problem we must choose the abandonment." The Spaniard, despite the preventive treatment followed by her coach Joan Forcades-based proprioceptive work, has suffered a fracture, an inflammation of the talofibular ligament, post-traumatic arthritis, especially in the left foot. That plus the insertion tendinitis of the quadriceps tendon and patellar tendonitis.

Many players, including Andre Agassi, had already warned: "This boy is too physical and will not last for many years on the circuit playing well." However, tennis has tried to change his game is much more aggressive than before and its physical demands in parties is lower than previous years.

Quote:Tennis - ATP
Nadal rétabli dans une semaine

Rafael Nadal, contraint à l'abandon lors de son quart de finale contre Andy Murray à Melbourne à cause d'une blessure au genou, estime qu'il sera guéri dans une semaine. «Je ne suis pas inquiet, a lancé l'Espagnol jeudi à Barcelone, avant de se rendre dans une clinique pour faire des examens. J'ai juste une petite douleur et je pense être rétabli dans une semaine, voire moins.»