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Davenport wins Porsche GP after injured Mauresmo quits |
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Written by Yves
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Saturday, 09 October 2004 |
Davenport wins Porsche GP at Filderstadt after injured Mauresmo quits.
FILDERSTADT, Germany (AP) — Lindsay Davenport won the Porsche Grand Prix on Sunday when top-ranked Amelie Mauresmo quit after losing the first set because of an injured left thigh.
Davenport captured this No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown for her tour-high seventh title of the year and 45th of her career.
"It's just a bad feeling — there's not a whole lot of joy in winning like this," Davenport said. "We played maybe one tough game, the first game, then her leg started bothering her."
Mauresmo will undergo tests to see if she can play in next week's Kremlin Cup. If the Frenchwoman withdraws, Davenport needs to win just one match to gain the top spot. Davenport trails Mauresmo in the WTA rankings by just 15 points.
Davenport won the first set 6-2 before Mauresmo withdrew because her heavily taped thigh hampered her movement. Mauresmo was hurt in the third game when Davenport broke serve to lead 2-1. After the next game, she left the court to have her thigh taped and was unable to chase down the American's shots the rest of the set.
"I am a little disappointed because I think we would have played a great match," said Mauresmo, who was going for her fourth title of the season.
Mauresmo made it clear all week how much she wanted to keep the top ranking while Davenport minimized the importance of becoming No. 1 a fifth time.
But the 28-year-old Californian left open the possibility she could leave the game at the top. She has said she will quit by 2006 at the latest to start a family.
"That would be something," Davenport said, referring to retirement while No. 1. "But I would never say this is my last tournament because then I would cry the whole time."
This was just the fifth time in the last 21 years the No. 1 and No. 2 players faced each other in a European tour event.
Mauresmo assured her No. 1 ranking for another week by winning her semifinal against U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Davenport won $98,500, adding to her career earnings of more than $18 million, along with a sports car. Mauresmo earned $53,000.Only registered users can write comments.
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