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Federer, Nadal to begin next season at Abu Dhabi event

DUBAI
Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:13am EDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal will begin the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi by playing in a six-man, $250,000 winner-takes-all exhibition tournament, local media reported Tuesday.

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Swiss world number one Federer and his Spanish rival have confirmed they will be taking part in the event, which starts on December 31, Dubai's Gulf News quoted organizers as saying.

Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Russian Nikolay Davydenko, Spain's Fernando Verdasco and Swede Robin Soderling will also take part.

British world number three Andy Murray, who defeated Nadal in the inaugural event this year, has decided to skip the event, organizers added.

Murray is currently nursing a wrist injury and has withdrawn from this week's Shanghai Masters.

(Reporting by N.Ananthanarayanan in New Delhi, Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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