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Nadal must circumvent fatigue, injuries from grinding clay-court season

By Ravi Ubha
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Tournament: Hamburg Masters Surface: Clay Draw: 64 Prize money: $3.5 million Top seeds: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Nikolay Davydenko A few weeks ago, who'd have thought Roger Federer would enter the Hamburg Masters in better physical shape than main rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic? Nadal succumb to foot blisters at the Rome Masters, and Djokovic, despite winning the title, admitted he still wasn't 100 percent. The walking wounded also featured Andy Roddick, Fern ...

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