Summary The Spanish world number three is already guaranteed a place in the season-ending World Tour Finals.
PARIS (AFP) - French Open champion Rafael Nadal has pulled out of next week s ATP Paris Masters citing personal reasons, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said Friday, with surgery to remove his appendix looming.
The Spanish world number three is already guaranteed a place in the season-ending World Tour Finals in London next month.
However, the 28-year-old s decision to skip Paris is certain to mean that he will undergo surgery on his appendix next week, an operation almost certain to also rule him out of London.
Nadal, who has been suffering from appendicitis since the tour s Chinese swing earlier this month, was facing Croatian teenager Borna Coric in the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors tournament later Friday.
"If Nadal does not come, it would be with a heavy heart. I think he will have surgery," said Paris Masters tournament director Guy Forget.
The Paris Masters, often beset by withdrawals due to its position in the calendar at the end of the season, has also seen US Open champion Marin Cilic pull out with an arm injury and No.13 Ernests Gulbis withdraw due to a shoulder problem.
Nadal has been replaced in the draw by compatriot Pablo Andujar while Pole Jerzy Janowicz, finalist in 2012, and Canadian Vasek Pospisil take the places of Cilic and Gulbis.
