Azarenka retires from opening match due to injury at Roland Garros
Updated: 2016-05-25 10:09
(Xinhua)
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Belarus' Victoria Azarenka retruns the ball to Italy's Karin Knapp during their women's first round match at the Roland Garros 2016 French Tennis Open in Paris on May 24, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
PARIS - Two-times Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka was forced to retire with a right knee injury from her opening match at Roland Garros on Tuesday when the fifth seed trailing 4-0 to world No 118 Karin Knapp in the decider.
The former French Open semifinalist got the early break to take a 2-1 lead, but it was her Italian opponent who took the first set 6-3 with big serving and hard-hitting shots.
In the second set, Azarenka took an early 2-0 lead and forced the third set with a 8-6 win in a tiebreaker, though the Belarusian seemed uncomfortable, calling for a medical timeout at 3-3 to nurse her right knee.
Azarenka battled tears throughout the third set before conceding at 0-4 to give Knapp the win.
Knapp, who made it to a career high of world No 23 last year, is thus through to the French Open women's singles last 64.
"I am really happy. I mean, I'm sorry for her. She had injury. But I think when she retired, we were having a great match," said the Italian.
Knapp next plays Latvia' s Anastasija Sevastova in the second round which she moves into for the first time since 2008.
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