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The world number four, who reached the final at Flushing
Meadows last year, looked out of sorts in collapsing to a
one-sided 6-3 6-0 semi-final loss to Briton Andy Murray in
Montreal on Saturday.
The 25-year-old hard-court specialist, the first Japanese man to
reach a grand slam final, said he did not think the injury would
curtail his title bid at the U.S. Open which starts in New York
on Aug. 31.
"I've never injured that part of the body but I expect to get
better in a week," Nishikori said in a statement carried by
Kyodo News on Monday.
"I think I'll be able to play well at the U.S. Open."
(Writing by Patrick Johnston in Singapore; editing by Sudipto
Ganguly)
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