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TENNIS

Surgery ends Nadal's season

Rafael Nadal will have season-ending appendicitis surgery next month, ruling him out of the Paris Masters and the ATP finals in London. Nadal announced the decision on Friday after losing to 17-year-old Borna Coric in a sub-par performance in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors in Basel. He said he made the decision last week to undergo surgery on Nov 3 and that his 2014 season is over. "It's the day to say goodbye to the season," Nadal said. "It's been a very hard year for me, mentally and physically. I'm not going to play Paris and London, I'm not competitive enough for that. I need to do the surgery for my appendix and I need to work on my back."