Tennis: Isner injury puts Spain into final
Tournament-ending knee injury to American John Isner handed Spain a berth in this weekend’s final of the Hopman Cup.
PERTH:
A tournament-ending knee injury to American John Isner yesterday handed Spain a berth in this weekend’s final of the Hopman Cup. The US pairing of Isner and Venus Williams were set to face Spain’s Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues, with the winner to progress to tomorrow’s final. However, Isner withdrew from the tournament citing a right knee problem, handing Spain a 3-0 victory and passage into the final for the sixth time. Spain have won the mixed teams title three times, most recently in 2010, when Tommy Robredo and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez lifted the title against Great Britain’s Laura Robson and Andy Murray. “We are happy, of course, to be in the final,” said Verdasco. “It was going to be a difficult tie, but when John didn’t play, it is unlucky for everybody, but we are in the final and hopefully it is going to be a good day for us.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 4th, 2013.
A tournament-ending knee injury to American John Isner yesterday handed Spain a berth in this weekend’s final of the Hopman Cup. The US pairing of Isner and Venus Williams were set to face Spain’s Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues, with the winner to progress to tomorrow’s final. However, Isner withdrew from the tournament citing a right knee problem, handing Spain a 3-0 victory and passage into the final for the sixth time. Spain have won the mixed teams title three times, most recently in 2010, when Tommy Robredo and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez lifted the title against Great Britain’s Laura Robson and Andy Murray. “We are happy, of course, to be in the final,” said Verdasco. “It was going to be a difficult tie, but when John didn’t play, it is unlucky for everybody, but we are in the final and hopefully it is going to be a good day for us.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 4th, 2013.