Nadal pulls out of Davis Cup
Rafael Nadal has been dropped from Spain’s Davis Cup team because of fatigue following his fiveset loss to Roger Federer in Sunday’s Australian Open. He will be replaced with Feliciano Lopez for this weekend’s best-of-five series at Croatia in the first round of the World Group. “Rafa’s wear and tear in the last month was very significant,” Spain captain Conchita Martinez said. “He needs to recover from his recent efforts and certainly will be with us again in the next rounds.”