CINCINNATI, Ohio (AFP) — Fourth-ranked US star Venus Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam champion, withdrew from next week's Cincinnati Open because of left knee pain yesterday with the US Open looming in three weeks.
The five-time Wimbledon winner and two-time US Open champion won at Dubai and Acapulco earlier this year, giving her 43 career WTA titles, but said she dropped out of the harcourt event on the advice of doctors.
"During the last three weeks, I returned to my normal practice schedule and last week began to experience pain in my left knee," Williams said.
"My medical advisors and physio have recommended that I refrain from competition until I am pain free. Unfortunately, I am not at a point where I can commit to competing next week."
Williams' sister, world number one Serena, has already said she will miss Cincinnati and Montreal, the major tuneup events for the US Open, because she cut her right foot on broken glass at a restaurant.
Serena won her fourth Wimbledon title and 13th Grand Slam crown last month and a WTA spokesman said that the injury could jeopardise her participation in the year's final Grand Slam that begins August 30 in New York.
While the Williams sisters will be missing, the other eight women among the world's 10 top-ranked players will compete, including Serbian top seed and world number two Jelena Jankovic and seventh-ranked Kim Clijsters, the reigning US Open champion.
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Here is a link to a story on CNN about Martina Navratilova's battle with breast cancer. I hope she gets better as soon as possible...
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/tennis/08/06/covering.navratilova/index.html?hpt=C2#fbid=gl1Tp01wSlb&wom=false
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A bad start for the system with 4 of the first 5 bets losing. I was just praying it didn't wipe out the gain it made yesterday and I can't wait for this week to be over with all the tanking etc that goes on.
There was a stage two bet that lost early on and a stage three bet that won later in the night. A slight loss for the day but nothing to worry about.
Not feeling too great about today's selections so fingers crossed and we will see what happens.
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