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Wozniacki quits semis with injury

CAROLINE Wozniacki retired from her semifinal against Maria Kirilenko at the New Haven Open in Connecticut on Friday, with a knee injury ending her bid for a fifth straight title at the US Open tune-up.

Wozniacki hurt her right knee in a quarterfinal victory over Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova on Thursday.

She had lost the first set to the Russian 5-7 when she called for the trainer.

"It's definitely not the way I would have liked to have finished," said Wozniacki, who was trying to join Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Chris Evert as the only players to win five straight titles at the same WTA event. "You know, it's unfortunate," the Dane said. "But these things happen.

"It was a difficult decision to stop."

Wozniacki said she opted to play after doctors told her she probably wouldn't make the injury worse. But it troubled her in the first set and she decided to rest her leg for a couple of days in a bid to be ready for the US Open starting tomorrow.

Wozniacki suffered her first match defeat at New Haven, where she was the four-time defending champion.

In the final, Kirilenko will face second-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova, who defeated fourth-seeded Sara Errani of Italy, 6-1, 6-3.




 

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