Nadal Injury Forces Withdrawal From Stuttgart

Rafa Nadal who won Wimbledon after overcoming five times winner Roger Federer on Sunday, has been advised by doctors not to take part in the Stuttgart championship.

The Wimbledon final was considered to be the best ever mens singles final at the SW London courts, finishing in an amazing tie break that threatened to go either way until the last ball.

However it has emerged that Nadal was nursing an injury picked up in his quarter final game. He has flown to Germany to offer his withdrawal from the championship personally and now intends to rest.

Nadal has played 63 games so far this year and won 56. He is still some 545 points behind Federer in the World Player rankings, but will lose a further 250 points for not defending his win last year, in Germany.