Olympic champion Rafael Nadal's backdown from the London Games due to injury deprived the tournament of 1 of its biggest attractions and left Spain reeling on Thursday.
The gold medal winner in Beijing 4 years ago has did not endure a knee drawback, and conjointly misses out on the honour of carrying his nation's flag at the gap ceremony.
The Spanish tennis federation (RFET) said Feliciano Lopez would be his replacement within the singles whereas the country's Olympic committee (COE) said a gathering on Friday would opt for a replacement flag bearer for the July twenty seventh parade.
"I am not in a good condition to be capable to contend," Nadal, said in a sad line. "It's one among the saddest time of my life."
Nadal won a memorialize seventh French Open championship in June however crashed out within the second spherical at Wimbledon in a very huge upset against lowly ranked Czech Lukas Rosol.
In the begining of this month, he pulled out of a charity match against Novak Djokovic at Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium saying he was tormented by tendinitis and required to rest.
Nadal had hoped to come to Wimbledon this month to defend his Olympic title and his withdrawal echoes his plight of 2009 when an analogous knee drawback meant he had to withdraw from the grasscourt Grand Slam, a year when winning it for the primary time in an epic final against Roger Federer.
I can not be selfish and that i got to consider the well-being of Spanish sport, particularly Spanish tennis, and let a colleague play who has had a more robust preparation and is in a very state to compete," the globe variety 3 added.
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