Djokovic to miss Davis Cup First Round

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 at 10:19 am , filed under Mens, Novak Djokovic, Players by Alan Kyle

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Novak Djokovic, the Serbian and the world no.3, will be out of the first round series against India. The world no.3, djokovic has confirmed on his website stating that, he will miss out the match against India which is scheduled this weekend.

Djokovic, the Australian open champion and last week’s Dubai open winner, has defended his title by defeating the world no.2 Federer in the finals of the Dubai Open. Ahead of winning, he has said that, he wants to prepare for the forthcoming tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami, earlier in years, djokovic has not performed very well in US. So in fact, now he wants to work hard and get some good results in the U.S.

The defending Davis Cup champion’s will play their first round series against India in the three-day series in northern Serbian city of Novi Sad on Friday, 04.03.2011.

The Serbia’s will be missing the world no.3, Djokovic. However, they are still a favorite team against Indians with Viktor Troicki and Janko Tipsarevic as the singles.

India is also having a setback with Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, the top seeded doubles pair withdrawing from the Davis cup, due to injuries.

The top seeded Indian player Leander Paes is suffering form wrist injury, while his double’s patner Mahesh Bhupathi is out due to a groin problem. The top seeded Indian players have been replaced by doubles pair, Karan Rastogi and Yuki Bhambri.

And in the singles Indian will be pairing-up with Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna.

Novak Djokovic will be playing his next tournament in Masters 1000, which will be held at Indian Wells, California form 9th March, 2011.

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