Into the Unknown: Del Potro And Nadal Injury Could Be Gift For Davydenko

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Published: February 13, 2010

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Just how worried are the “big cheeses” in charge of the first Masters events of 2010? As the men’s Tour heads towards the climax of the early hard court season in North America, the window of preparation is closing fast. Yet there are worrying signs about who will actually start, let alone stay, the course.

With the news this week that Juan Martin Del Potro will be absent for between one and two months due to a recurrence of a wrist injury, it will be touch and go whether the world No. 5 is able to play in either Indian Wells—which begins in four weeks’ time—or in Miami—six weeks hence.

This comes on the heels of Rafael Nadal’s departure from the circuit in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, also for at least a month. He is still targeting Indian Wells for his return. But the uncertainty surrounding the fitness of two of the game’s biggest draws must nevertheless be causing a few sleepless nights for tournament organisers.

Del Potro has been hampered, on and off, by tendinitis in the wrist since he won the U.S. Open last September. It forced him to pull out of the second round of the Shanghai Masters, and flared up again at the warm-up tournament in Kooyong before the Australian Open.

He has now been forced to withdraw from Marseille and Dubai with the same problem, and is also unlikely to join the Argentine Davis Cup team against Sweden next month.

It was this time last year that Nadal’s injury problems started: He faded in the final at Rotterdam, and then withdrew from Dubai. This year, following his retirement in the quarterfinals at Melbourne, Nadal did not even make it as far as Rotterdam.

Information about his progress is thin on the ground. His website is under reconstruction during his absence, and his Facebook messages are noncommittal.

What little news there is comes from Uncle Toni, who has confirmed that N...
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