Davenport Injured Again at WTA StanfordPosted on July 29, 2005 World No. 1 Lindsay Davenport retired Thursday trailing 0-5 to German Anna-Lena Groenefeld with a back strain at the WTA stop in Stanford, succumbing to the same injury that slowed her at the end of the Wimbledon final against Venus Williams.
"It felt fine earlier but this morning, it locked up on me, and I knew it was going to be a tough day," Davenport said. "In hindsight, I may have been rushing to play, but I love this event and really wanted to come. It's tough to walk away from something you enjoy." No. 4 Kim Clijsters (d. Sugiyama 1-and-2) was the only seeded winner on the day, with two other unseeded players gaining the quarterfinals in Czech Iveta Benesova (d. (8) Schiavone from a set down) and Slovak Daniela Hantuchova (d. (Q) Shaughnessy 6-1 in the third). "I learned in our previous matches I let her dictate too much," said Clijsters, who had lost three times previously to her former doubles partner and friend Sugiyama. "I felt like if I was going to win, I'd have to hit the ball deep and hard to put her on her back foot." On tap for the Friday quarterfinals are (2) Venus vs. (7) Jankovic (first meeting), (3) Schnyder vs. Benesova, (4) Clijsters vs. Hantuchova (Clijsters leads 5-0), and (6) Dechy vs. Groenefeld. |
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