Dementieva Injured, Safina, Wildcard Krajicek Advance at WTA 's-HertogenboschPosted on June 15, 2005 Top seed Elena Dementieva retired from her match versus Denisa Chladkova Tuesday at the WTA stop in 's-Hertogenbosch, at 5-5 in the first telling the umpire she could go on no further with a right shoulder injury.
"I was hitting a forehand and I just felt something in my shoulder," Dementieva said. "It's nothing that has happened before so I didn't know what it was. I think it was a strange bounce on the grass courts and I hit it awkwardly...For the moment it's difficult to say if I'm going to be able to play at Wimbledon but I'm trying to be optimistic." Spain's No. 3-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues (d. Benesova) led the seeded winners, joined by Russian No. 4 seed Dinara Safina (d. Peer) and No. 6 Argentine Gisela Dulko (d. Randriantefy). Un-seeded winners on the lawns into the second round were Czech Lucie Safarova (d. (5) Llagostera Vives from a set down), Dutch wildcard Michaella Krajicek (d. Cervanova), Russian Maria Kirilenko (d. Peschke), Argentine Mariana Diaz-Oliva (d. Kostanic from a set down) and Italy's Maria Elena Camerin (d. Stosur). "I wasn't too nervous about playing in front of my home crowd," the teen Krajicek said. "I was nervous the past two years but I think I got it all out of my system. Today I just wanted to go out and play a good match." On tap for Wednesday are Diaz-Oliva vs. (2) Petrova, (3) Anabel "Funky Cold" Medina Garrigues vs. (WC) Michaella "Little Sis" Krajicek, (6) Gisela "Sgt." Dulko vs. Camerin, Shaughnessy vs. (7) Groenefeld, Kirilenko vs. (4) Dinara "Little Sis" Safina in an all-Russian, Schaul vs. (8) Klara "Kouky" Koukalova, and Safarova vs. Ruano Pascual. |
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