Ten:Injury clouds clearing for Australian Open

AAP General News (Australia)
01-11-2012
Ten:Injury clouds clearing for Australian Open

By Mike Hedge

MELBOURNE, Jan 11 AAP - Roger Federer's back is almost better, Kim Clijsters is battling
through her hip problem and an ankle-impaired Serena Williams has vowed on Twitter to
"win from within".

The news is also good for Rafael Nadal, who finished 2011 with a sore left shoulder,
and for Maria Sharapova after the world No.4 was forced out of the season-opening Auckland
Classic and last week's Brisbane International with an ankle injury.

But even as the most threatening injury clouds scatter in the days before the …