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WIMBLEDON champion Roger Federer withdrew on Monday from the Western & Southern Open because of a back injury. He has won the Masters series tournament in Mason Cheap Atlanta Hawks Hats , Ohio, seven times.


The move was announced on the first full day of matches. This US Open warmup has now lost five of the top six players in the men’s rankings.


Federer, a 19-time major champion, said in a statement he “tweaked” his back last week at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, where he lost Sunday’s final to Alexander Zverev.


The Swiss star, ranked No. 3 Cheap Utah Jazz Shirts , is sidelined along with No. 1 Andy Murray, No. 4 Stan Wawrinka, No. 5 Novak Djokovic and No. 6 Marin Cilic, the defending champion. Only No. 2 Rafael Nadal, the top-seeded player, remains in the draw.


Tournament officials tweeted that 21st-ranked Gael Monfils also is out because of an undisclosed illness. All the missing players except Cilic are 30 or older.


“It’s just coincidence Cheap Toronto Raptors Shirts ,” said Nadal, 31. “We’re not 20 years old any more. We’re not playing all the weeks. It’s part of our sport. I’ve been in their position lots of times. I’ve missed more events than the other players. It’s part of the game. I wish them all a speedy recovery. We need them in the game. I hope they get back soon.”


Federer’s withdrawal means Nadal, who lost in the third round at Montreal, will return to No. 1 when new ATP rankings are released on August 21. The Spaniard will be No. 1 for the first time since July 6, 2014.


Nadal has spent 141 weeks at No. 1 since first ascending there after reaching the Western & Southern semifinals in 2008. “It’s been tough to get back to No. 1,” he said. “I’m happy to have the chance to be in that position.”


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LONDON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The economic performance of the five leading emerging economies of the BRICS group exceeds expectations of the man who first came up with the acronym, the inventor of the term told Xinhua in a recent interview.


Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill coined the acronym BRIC in 2001 to cover the nations Brazil, Russia, India and China (South Africa later joined to make the term BRICS) as economies which would blossom in the 21st century and take the lead in global business.


"Sixteen years later the BRICS share of global GDP (gross domestic product) is bigger than every scenario I projected," O'Neill said.


His comments came weeks ahead of the ninth BRICS summit which is to be held in the Chinese city of Xiamen early next month.


O'Neill predicted in his 2001 paper "Building Better Global Economic BRICS" that the BRICS nations by now would have a combined economic worth of about 11.6 trillion U.S. dollars. Their actual worth is about 16.6 trillion dollars this year.


The first decade of this century was a period in which the group reached and then more than fulfilled the potential that O'Neill foresaw in 2001 Cheap Sacramento Kings Shirts , and which has made the world sit up and take notice.


Average annual growth rates for the BRICS nations from 2001-2011 were, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) -- Brazil 3.8 percent, Russia 4.8 percent, India 7.8 percent, China about 10.7 percent and South Africa 3.7 percent.


The second decade has seen less stellar progress for the nations, as the world economy recovers from the financial crisis and nations like China are embarking on a different phase of development.


The nations have collaborated and now meet regularly as a group. They have set up a development bank called the New Development Bank Cheap Portland Trail Blazers Shirts , based in Shanghai.


O'Neill also noted a very recent development in bilateral trade between China and Germany, one of Europe's leading economies.


In 2016, China became Germany's largest trade partner, with trade between the two nations surpassing 150 billion dollars.


"It's good. A lot of these forces are happening. Here's an important statistic about global trade -- China became Germany's largest trading partner. Hugely symbolic for BRICS countries," said O'Neill, who believed the BRICS success story is for the long term.


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O'Neill hits back at those who have said that the BRICS is losing its shine.


To focus merely on a slowdown in the combined growth of the economies is missing the point Cheap Phoenix Suns Shirts , said O'Neill.


China's economy continued its steady expansion in the first half of this year with its GDP up 6.9 percent year-on-year to about 38.2 trillion yuan (5.6 trillion dollars), according to the country's National Bureau of Statistics.


Russia and Brazil suffered recessions in recent years, but Brazil's economy grew again in the first quarter of this year after a protracted recession and Russia achieved a growth rate of 2.5 percent year-on-year in the second quarter.