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Wawrinka pulls out of Rio Games due to injury: Swiss Tennis

Wawrinka pulls out of Rio Games due to injury: Swiss Tennis

By REUTERS

Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland returns the ball to Mikhail Youzhny of Russia at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in in Toronto, on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Photo: Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP

GENEVA: Switzerland's world number four Stan Wawrinka has pulled out the tennis competition at the Rio Olympics because of injury, he said in a statement to the Swiss Tennis Federation on Tuesday. 'I am very sad because after Beijing and London I would have liked to experience my third Olympic Games in Brazil; unfortunately that will now not be possible,' he said.