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Nadal to Skip ’12 Cup, Focus on Olympics

SEVILLE, Spain — Fresh from help­ing Spain win its fifth Davis Cup,Rafael Nadal said he will skip the event next year and focus on defend­ing hisgold medal at the Lon­don Olympics. Nadal ral­lied to beat Juan Mar­tin del Potro 1–6, 6–4, 6–1, 7–6 (0) on Sun­dayto give Spain a 3–1 series vic­tory over Argentina and his third Davis Cup titleafter first win­ning it in 2004. Spain’s Rafael Nadal celeb… - Dec 4, 12:28 pm EST Spain’s team cel­e­brates af… - Dec 4, 12:23 pm EST Spain’s team cel­e­brates af… - Dec 4,... 

Nadal Rallies to Give Spain Davis Cup

Updated Dec 4, 2011 1:57 PM ET SEVILLE, Spain Spain won its fifth Davis Cup title after Rafael Nadal recov­ered from a ter­ri­ble start, hold­ing on to beat Argentina’s Juan Mar­tin del Potro 1–6, 6–4, 6–1, 7–6 (0) on Sun­day to give the hosts an insur­mount­able 3–1 lead. Nadal endured his most lop­sided set defeat in the com­pe­ti­tion as Del Potro hit fore­hand win­ners at will, with the Spaniard fail­ing to hold his first four serves to trail 1–0, 40–0 by the sec­ond game of the sec­ond set. But Del Potro started mis­fir­ing and Nadal found his rhythm... 

Argentina Wins Davis Cup Doubles

Updated Dec 3, 2011 2:02 PM ET SEVILLE, Spain Argentina beat Spain in dou­bles to cut its Davis Cup final deficit to 2–1 on Sat­ur­day, although the South Amer­i­cans will have to beat Rafael Nadal on his favorite clay sur­face to keep their chances of a maiden title alive. David Nal­ban­dian and Eduardo Schwank, part­ner­ing for the first time, eased to a 6–4, 6–2, 6–3 vic­tory over Span­ish pair Fer­nando Ver­dasco and Feli­ciano Lopez at Olympic Stadium. The South Amer­i­cans broke five times and repelled each of the three they faced against their Span­ish coun­ter­parts... 

Nadal Wins to Give Spain Davis Cup Lead

Updated Dec 2, 2011 1:10 PM ET SEVILLE, Spain Rafael Nadal returned to the com­fort of clay and his best play fol­lowed as he gave Spain a 1–0 lead over Argentina in the Davis Cup final by dis­patch­ing Juan Monaco 6–1, 6–1, 6–2 on Friday. Nadal broke Monaco seven times at Olympic Sta­dium, and four-time cham­pion Spain looked to take com­mand of the final when David Fer­rer faced Juan Mar­tin del Potro in the sec­ond sin­gles rub­ber late Friday. Monaco held his first ser­vice game but Nadal took con­trol by win­ning the next seven games. The six-time French Open cham­pion... 

Argentines Awakened Early for Drug Tests

SEVILLE, Spain — Argentina’s Davis Cup team was awak­ened for dop­ingtests at 6:30 a.m. Thurs­day, a day before it begins the Davis Cup final againstSpain. “It’s a shame since it was a rest day and we didn’t get to rest,“Argentina cap­tain Tito Vazquez Vazquez said at the draw. “It didn’t seem veryappro­pri­ate. They could have done it the day before at another moment, butunfor­tu­nately that’s not up to us to decide.” Spain’s Rafael Nadal , lef… - Dec 1, 8:53 am EST From left, Argentina’s Jua… - Dec 1, 8:37 am EST Argen­tine... 

Hewitt Gets Australian Open Wild Card

MELBOURNE, Aus­tralia — Aus­tralian star Lley­ton Hewitt has received awild-card spot in the Aus­tralian Open next month. The two-time Grand Slam win­ner, once the top-ranked player in the world, is188th after sev­eral injury-plagued sea­sons, but tour­na­ment direc­tor Craig Tileysaid Thurs­day giv­ing the 2005 runner-up a spot was the eas­i­est deci­sion he hashad to make. Tiley said “Lley­ton has had some bad luck with injury recently, which hasseen his rank­ing drop, but he has proved time and time again he can never bedis­counted, par­tic­u­larly in a big match.” Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Nadal to Lead Spain Against Argentina

By PAUL LOGOTHETIS, Sports Writer MADRID — Rafael Nadal will lead Spain in the Davis Cup final againstArgentina, which will count on Juan Mar­tin del Potro and David Nal­ban­dian tolead the South Amer­i­cans to a first title in their fourth attempt. The second-ranked Nadal helped Spain beat France 4–1 in the semi­fi­nals toset up the Dec. 2–4 final on the hosts’ favored clay sur­face at Olympic Sta­diumin Seville. Spain’s Davis Cup cap­tain … - Nov 22, 9:45 am EST Spain’s Davis Cup cap­tain … - Nov 22, 9:44 am EST Spain’s Davis... 

Djokovic: My ‘Worst Match’ of the Year

Updated Nov 23, 2011 8:05 PM ET LONDON It’s tough in the ATP World Tour Finals. If unpre­pared or a lit­tle bit hurt, even the great­est play­ers in the world can find them­selves humiliated. On Tues­day, it was Rafael Nadal at the hands of Roger Fed­erer. And Wednes­day, Novak Djokovic — the world No. 1 who is try­ing to fin­ish off one of the great­est years any player has enjoyed — found him­self totally out­played by Spain’s David Fer­rer, 6–3, 6–1. Djokovic looked bewil­dered after­ward. “All credit to my oppo­nent, but you know I wasn’t there,” said... 

Injured Murray Pulls Out of ATP Finals

By CAROLINE CHEESE, Sports Writer LONDON — Andy Mur­ray spent two hours debat­ing whether to play on at theATP World Tour Finals, and said his body made the deci­sion for him. The third-ranked Scot pulled out of the season-ending tour­na­ment Tues­daywith a groin strain he sus­tained dur­ing prac­tice last week. After strug­gling through a straight-sets loss to David Fer­rer, Mur­raydecided to take the safe option after long con­ver­sa­tions with his sup­port teamon Tues­day. “I was just try­ing to find rea­sons why I should try to play,” Mur­ray said.“But, you know,... 

Laver: Federer’s Slam Drought Will End

BRISBANE, Aus­tralia — Rod Laver pre­dicts Roger Federer’s two-year grandslam title drought will soon end. Fed­erer has dropped to No. 4 in the world rank­ings since win­ning his 16thand last major at the 2010 Aus­tralian Open, slip­ping behind Novak Djokovic,Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray. Switzerland’s Roger Federe… - Nov 20, 2:44 pm EST Speak­ing at Monday’s unveil­ing of the Bris­bane International’s new RoyEmer­son Tro­phy in honor of his on-court rival and fel­low Aus­tralian, Laver saidFederer’s form at the ongo­ing Paris Mas­ters indi­cates...