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Monday 28 august 2017

‘12 champ Murray out of U.S.

Open; long list of injured men

begins Monday. Nadal this week, has not rankings will be absent.That
“Did pretty much every- played a match since July leaves No. 1 seed Nadal
thing that I could to get 12 at Wimbledon, where he and No. 3 Roger Federer
myself ready here and was the defending cham- — who has been dealing
took a number of weeks pion and clearly was ham- with a bad back himself —
off after Wimbledon. I ob- pered by his hip during a as the two clear favorites
viously spoke to a lot of five-set quarterfinal loss to for the men’s trophy. They
hip specialists. Tried obvi- Sam Querrey.The 30-year- were drawn Friday into the
ously resting, rehabbing, old from Britain revealed same half of the bracket,
to try and get myself ready during a news conference meaning they could only
FILE - This July 12, 2017 file photo shows Britain’s Andy Murray
returning to Sam Querrey of the United States during their Men’s here,” said Murray, who at the U.S. Open site Satur- meet in the semifinals in
Singles Quarterfinal Match at the Wimbledon Tennis Champion- won the 2012 U.S. Open for day that the hip first both- New York.“Obviously there
ships in London. the first of his three major ered him during his semifi- has been a lot of players
Associated Press championships.“Was actu- nal loss to Stan Wawrinka at with injuries this year,” Mur-
ally practicing OK the last the French Open in June. ray said. “Look, I want to
By HOWARD FENDRICH Open because of a hip in- few days,” he added, “but Murray said he will decide be back on court as soon
AP Tennis Writer jury, adding to the lengthy it’s too sore for me to win in the “next couple of days” as I can. If it means that I
NEW YORK (AP) — His voice list of top players who will the tournament. And ulti- whether to end his season can play before the end of
choking, Andy Murray un- miss the year’s last Grand mately, that’s what I was because of the injury.He the year, then that’s what
expectedly announced Slam tournament.Murray here to try and do.” has dealt with hip problems I would love to do. I miss
Saturday that he was was seeded No. 2 at Flush- Murray, who yielded the off and on for years, but competing, and I’ll try to
withdrawing from the U.S. ing Meadows, where play No. 1 ranking to Rafael not to the point where it get myself back on court
forced him off the tour for as soon as I can.”If Murray
an extended absence. had pulled out of the field
“I certainly wouldn’t have anytime before the draw
been hurting myself more was conducted Thursday,
by trying to play. It was then Federer would have
more a question of wheth- moved up to the No. 2
er it would settle down in seeding and automatical-
Located in the Riu Antilles Resort (Formerly the Westin Resort) time,” Murray said. “Ob- ly would be in the bottom
FREE TRANSPORTATION TO THE CASINO FROM ALL viously I kind of ran out of half of the bracket, setting
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missing three of last year’s No. 5 Marin Cilic, the 2014
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four men’s semifinalists, in-
GAMES START 8 PM TO THE WEE HOURS cluding 2016 champion ray’s slot in the bracket
Wawrinka, runner-up No- and takes on the man who
vak Djokovic and Kei Ni- was supposed to face Mur-
1-2.....2-5......5-5 1-3.....2-5......5-5 shikori.Three-time major ray in the first round, Ten-
champion Wawrinka re-
nys Sandgren of the United
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CRAPS bad right elbow and 2014 moves to Cilic’s vacated

ONLY CASINO IN ARUBA TO OFFER 3, 4 & 5 TIME ODDS U.S. Open runner-up Ni- spot and will play Gilles Si-
shikori has an injured right mon of France. Querrey’s
wrist. All three have said old line in the draw gets
they are done for the year. filled by the highest-ranked
SPORTSBOOK Add in 2016 Wimbledon man who was not seeded

LIVE SIMULCAST OF ALL MAJOR TRACKS runner-up Milos Raonic, originally, Philipp Kohlsch-
who has a problem with reiber of Germany; he be-
THROUGHOBRED AND HARNESS his left wrist, and Murray, comes seed No. 33 and
and now five of the top plays qualifier Tim Smyczek
11 men in this week’s ATP of the U.S. q