ABU DHABI: Former world number one and 12-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic withdrew from the Mubadala World Tennis Championship on Friday with elbow ache to lift contemporary doubts over his health.
The 30-year-old Serbian megastar had focused Abu Dhabi for his first fit since his quarter-finals loss at Wimbledon in July this yr.
Djokovic was scheduled to play Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut within the semi-finals of the exhibition event at 1900 native time.
But four hours before that, Djokovic released a commentary on his website online saying his goal. It isn't clear still if he's going to play the Qatar Open the place he's best seed subsequent week.
"I am terribly disappointed that I am forced to withdraw from the Mubadala World Tennis Championship," Djokovic mentioned within the commentary.
"Unfortunately, in the past few days I started to feel pain in the elbow and after several tests, my medical team has advised me not to risk anything, to withdraw from the tournament and to immediately continue with the therapies."
He added: "Now I need to accept this situation, and to wait for the results of the therapies, in order to start playing tennis again and getting back to full rhythm. This might affect the start of the season and the tournament plan, but the decision will be made in the following days."
The organisers have now put in combination a fit between every other former world No 1, Britain's Andy Murray, and Bautista-Agut on the similar time.
Murray also hasn't performed a fit since his loss at Wimbledon to Sam Querrey.
He had been suffering from a hip injury and was spotted in Abu Dhabi on Thursday training with his coaching crew.
The second semi-final of the event is between world No 5 Dominic Thiem of Austria and world No 14 Kevin Anderson of South Africa.
On Saturday, previous to the boys's final, former girls's No 1 and 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams will make her go back to court with an exhibition fit in opposition to the reigning French Open champion, Jelena Ostapenko.
Williams has not performed since successful the Australian Open on account of being pregnant and the delivery of her first child in September.
The 30-year-old Serbian megastar had focused Abu Dhabi for his first fit since his quarter-finals loss at Wimbledon in July this yr.
Djokovic was scheduled to play Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut within the semi-finals of the exhibition event at 1900 native time.
But four hours before that, Djokovic released a commentary on his website online saying his goal. It isn't clear still if he's going to play the Qatar Open the place he's best seed subsequent week.
"I am terribly disappointed that I am forced to withdraw from the Mubadala World Tennis Championship," Djokovic mentioned within the commentary.
"Unfortunately, in the past few days I started to feel pain in the elbow and after several tests, my medical team has advised me not to risk anything, to withdraw from the tournament and to immediately continue with the therapies."
He added: "Now I need to accept this situation, and to wait for the results of the therapies, in order to start playing tennis again and getting back to full rhythm. This might affect the start of the season and the tournament plan, but the decision will be made in the following days."
The organisers have now put in combination a fit between every other former world No 1, Britain's Andy Murray, and Bautista-Agut on the similar time.
Murray also hasn't performed a fit since his loss at Wimbledon to Sam Querrey.
He had been suffering from a hip injury and was spotted in Abu Dhabi on Thursday training with his coaching crew.
The second semi-final of the event is between world No 5 Dominic Thiem of Austria and world No 14 Kevin Anderson of South Africa.
On Saturday, previous to the boys's final, former girls's No 1 and 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams will make her go back to court with an exhibition fit in opposition to the reigning French Open champion, Jelena Ostapenko.
Williams has not performed since successful the Australian Open on account of being pregnant and the delivery of her first child in September.
Novak Djokovic pulls out of Abu Dhabi comeback
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