" Novak Djokovic will take part in two exhibition tournaments next week before deciding whether to play at the Australian Open.
The 30-year-old former world number one has been out for the last six months with an elbow injury.
The problem forced him to pull out of recent events in Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
World number 22 Kei Nishikori Cheap Wholesale MLB Jerseys , a three-time quarter-finalist in Melbourne, will definitely miss the Australian Open however with a wrist injury.
The Japanese 29-year-old, who has not played since August, said that he was not yet ready to compete over five sets.
""It hurts that I will have to miss it,"" he added. ""My rehab is going well but I am just not ready 100%""
Djokovic is due to play at the Kooyong Classic and the Tie Break Tens evening exhibition at Melbourne Park in the week leading up to the Australian Open.
The Serb Cheap MLB Jerseys From China , who won the last of his 12 Grand Slam titles at the 2016 French Open, has won the Australian Open six times.
Djokovic has not played since retiring against Czech Tomas Berdych in the Wimbledon quarter-finals in July.
He pulled out of last week's Mubadala WTC exhibition in Abu Dhabi only hours before his match with Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut when the pain in his right elbow flared up and also withdrew from the Qatar Open in Doha.
The Australian Open begins in Melbourne on 15 January.(Agencies)
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DAMASCUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian government is concerned that the latest U.S. move to form a new army in northern Syria aims to fragment the country.
On Sunday, reports cited the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition as saying that the U.S. is working to form a 30,000-strong border security force Cheap MLB Jerseys China , which will be under the command of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrians supported by the U.S. in northern Syria.
The force will be deployed in northeastern Syria along the border with both Turkey and Iraq, a move that came after the SDF captured the northern city of Raqqa from the Islamic State (IS). Raqqa was the de facto capital of the terror group.
The SDF also captured other areas from IS in the northern countryside of Deir al-Zour late last year to consolidate its positions near the Iraqi border.
The situation in northern Syria and the growing influence of the Kurdish militias have raised the ire of the Syrian government Cheap MLB Jerseys , which has for long accused Washington of playing a destructive role in Syria.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry slammed the decision on Monday, saying the U.S. bid to form an armed militia in northern Syria is ""a flagrant violation of Syria's sovereignty.""
The U.S. declaration ""constitutes a flagrant aggression on the unity and sovereignty of Syria and a violation of the international law,"" the ministry said, vowing Syrian government's resolve to end the U.S. presence in the war-torn country.
""The U.S. action comes in the framework of its destructive policy in the region to fragment the countries and spur tensions to hinder any solution to the crisis,"" the ministry charged.
Meanwhile Cheap Jerseys China Wholesale , the ministry warned that it will regard any Syrian citizen taking part in this U.S.-backed militia as a ""traitor"" and will be dealt with accordingly.
The ministry denounced the new U.S. move as a ""renewed conspiracy"" that will be defeated by the Syrian army, which will end any form of the presence of the U.S. and its tools in Syria.
Meanwhile, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV that his country is determined to preserve Syria's unity, while slamming the U.S. tactics for damaging global stability.
Russia, Syrian government's main international ally Cheap Jerseys China Free Shipping , also expressed fears that the U.S. is ""pursuing a policy to cut Syria into several pieces.""
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that the U.S. does not intend to preserve Syria's sovereignty, accusing Washington of seeking to create a Kurdish-controlled entity along the Turkish and Iraqi border zones.
""The U.S. actions that we have been observing indicate that the U.S. does not want to keep Syria as a state in its current borders ... The U.S. wants to help the Syrian Democratic Forces to set up some border security zones,"" Lavrov said.
For its part, Turkey, the main backer of the opposition group and staunch opposer to the Kurdish forces in Syria Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping , also slammed the U.S. decision as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the U.S. of forming a ""terror army.""
""Our mission is to strangle it before it's even born,"" Erdogan said of the border force.
Erdogan's government has for long opposed the growing influence of the Kurdish forces along its border in northern Syria, fearing that any separatist move could inspire Turkey'