• Former world No1 goes down in five sets at Rod Laver Arena
• Nadal concedes: ‘It was not my day. Let’s sustain going’It is an increasingly sad sight to see Rafael Nadal leave a stout tournament ahead of schedule. His ambition to add to his 14 majors remains strong but his exit in the first round on day two was the third time in as many slams the Spaniard has failed to reach the moment week.
After winning a major every year for a decade,he failed to get past the quarter-finals of his virtually franchised French Open last summer then suffered further indignity: Dustin Brown dusted him up in the moment round at Wimbledon, and Fabio Fognini establish him out of the US Open. On Tuesday, and his friend Fernando Verdasco delivered the blade.
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Source: theguardian.com