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Rafael Nadal becomes latest to pull out of Miami Open
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Rafael Nadal has grow to be the most recent massive draw to drag out of the Miami Open.
Nadal is a five-time finalist on the occasion however hasn’t performed in Miami since 2017. His absence signifies that neither of the winners of this 12 months’s first Grand Slam occasion will probably be within the event; he gained the Australian Open for his record-setting twenty first main title, and girls’s champion Ashleigh Barty additionally withdrew earlier this month.
Nadal’s resolution got here three days after Novak Djokovic introduced that he wouldn’t be taking part in at Indian Wells or Miami as a result of he’s unvaccinated and might’t journey to the USA.
Spain’s Rafael Nadal serves to Serbia’s Laslo Djere throughout their first spherical match on the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.(AP Picture/Rick Rycroft)
“Rafa will definitely be missed. He has so many followers right here in South Florida, and we hope to see him again in Miami subsequent 12 months,” Miami event director James Blake stated.
Nadal, who’s taking part in Indian Wells, is presently ranked No. 4 on this planet. He was a Miami finalist in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2007 — with all these occasions going down on the event’s former South Florida dwelling on Key Biscayne.
The Miami Open begins March 21.