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Sela future in the balance

Dudi Sela, Israel top male tennis star over the past decade, could be set to retire. Sela, 33, has been sidelined with a chronic hand injury since July and will miss the opening weeks of the 2019 season. During this time, he has slipped to 236 in the world rankings.

January 7, 2019 15:22
The end could be nigh for top Israeli tennis star Dudi Sela. (Photo: Marc Morris)

By Simon Griver

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is season, but if I cannot make it back into the top 100, then this will be my last season.”

Sela reached a career high of 29  in 2009, when he made the fourth round at Wimbledon and helped Israel to the semi-finals of the Davis Cup.

He has won nearly $4million in prize money, including 22 Challenger titles, more than any other world player.

Only two other Israelis, Amos Mansdorf and Shlomo Glickstein, have reached a higher ranking in men’s tennis.

Israel’s top-ranked women’s player, Julia Glushko (124), will also miss the first month of the new season after having surgery on an injured knee.