Nadal Denies IMG Cut of Earnings as Career Resumes

Rafael Nadal is starting over with his tennis career, and his business affairs.

The 11-time Grand Slam champion, who returns to competition tomorrow in Chile after a seven-month hiatus because of injury, let his contract with management agency IMG Worldwide Inc. expire Dec. 31. He “wanted to set up his own company,” Fernando Soler, head of tennis at New York-based IMG, said in a telephone interview.