Top seed Davydenko retires from Swiss Open
AP Worldstream; Jul 05, 2005
Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko retired with an injured wrist Tuesday against Armenia's Sargis Sargsian in the first round of the SwissOpen.The Russian had won the first set 6-1 and was leading 1-0 in thesecond when he withdrew.Davydenko retired from his second-round match against Sweden's JonasBjorkman at Wimbledon last month with a similar injury.The 24-year-old Davydenko is enjoying the best season of his career,breaking into the top 10 after reaching the semifinals at RolandGarros this year. He also won his fifth career title in St. Poelten,and reached semifinals in Doha, Barcelona, and the Masters Series inHamburg.Previously, Sargsian had won only two matches this season _ defeatingDavid Sanchez at the Australian Open and Bobby Reynolds in IndianWells.The Armenian has not won back-to-back matches since last year'sU.S. Open where he beat Alex Corretja, Nicolas Massu and Paul-HenriMathieu, before losing to Andre Agassi.In other first-round play, Romania's Razvan Sabau eliminated Swisswildcard Michael Lammer 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, and Spain's Feliciano Lopezdefeated Russian Igor Andreev 7-5, 6-3.
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