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<\/p>\nLouie Hennessey will play no part in the new Nations Championship this summer<\/p>\n
Wales captain Dewi Lake with Louie Hennessey after the match against Ireland(Image: Chris Fairweather\/Huw Evans Agency)<\/p>\n
Wales centre Louie Hennessey has been ruled out of this summer’s Nations Championship after undergoing shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n
Bath confirmed the 22-year-old has had to withdraw from Wales’ 48-man training squad after picking up an injury in their Champions Cup semi-final defeat to Bordeaux. Wales have confirmed there are no plans to bring in a replacement.<\/p>\n
With Bath’s season still ongoing as they look to retain their Gallagher Prem crown, the one-cap centre had not yet linked up with Steve Tandy’s squad – with some players reporting for duty this week.<\/p>\n
Now, Hennessey will spend his summer recovering from surgery.<\/p>\n
Tandy still has a host of midfield options to rely upon in his mammoth training squad.<\/p>\n
Hennessey had been one of seven specialist centres named in the squad last month.<\/p>\n
JOIN OUR WALES RUGBY FACEBOOK PAGE Latest news, analysis and much more<\/a><\/p>\n The Wales coach still has uncapped Harlequins centre Bryn Bradley to join his squad, along with regulars Ben Thomas, Joe Hawkins, Eddie James, Max Llewellyn and Joe Roberts.<\/p>\n Mason Grady, while mainly used as a wing in recent seasons, is also capable of playing 13.<\/p>\n Hennessey had been called up by Wales for the first time ahead of this year’s Six Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n The former U20s international would go on to make his debut during the tournament, coming off the bench late in the defeat to Ireland in Dublin.<\/p>\n Cruelly, the young centre had been one of Bath’s standout players in their European exit, scoring against eventual champions Bordeaux out in France before picking up the shoulder injury.<\/p>\n Win free tickets to watch Fiji v Wales in Cardiff this summer<\/a><\/p>\n Earlier this week, new Wales call-up Bradley had spoken about how he was looking forward to joining his former age-grade midfield partner Hennessey in Wales’ senior squad.<\/p>\n “I probably knew at the time that those two (Hennessey and Dan Edwards) would go on to greater things,” he told WalesOnline.<\/p>\n “It was quite nice playing in between them. I just had to do my job and they’d do the rest.<\/p>\n “It’s always good seeing those boys from U20s progress because it gives you confidence you can make the step-up too. I can’t wait to get in and get around those boys.”<\/p>\n Tandy has also suffered one injury blow this week, with tighthead prop Keiron Assiratti looking doubtful to be involved.<\/a><\/p>\n No official announcement has been made, but he is expected to be ruled out.<\/p>\n Uncapped Ospreys<\/a> prop Rhys Henry is training with the squad, although that is understood to have been planned prior to the Cardiff<\/a> prop’s injury last weekend.<\/p>\n Follow all of our channels to ensure you stay up to date with the latest Welsh rugby news. Sign up to our free daily newsletter here<\/a> and our WhatsApp channel here<\/a> for all the breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louie Hennessey will play no part in the new Nations Championship this summer Wales captain Dewi Lake with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55,9015],"class_list":["post-622822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales-rugby-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}