Top seed Davydenko retires from opening match
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GSTAAD, Switzerland, July 5 (Reuters) - Top seed Nikolay Davydenko retired from his opening match at the Gstaad Open on Tuesday against Armenia's Sargis Sargsian with a wrist injury.
The Russian had won the first set 6-1 of the first round match on clay and was 1-0 up in the second when he pulled out.
A similar injury to his right wrist forced Davydenko to retire from his second round match against Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman at Wimbledon last month.
"There was more pain before," Davydenko said referring to his injury at Wimbledon.
"I probably could have won today but then I probably would have had to retire in the second round so it wouldn't have made sense.
"I'll have an MRI scan tomorrow and take the next five days off but if everything is okay after that I should be alright for the Davis Cup," he said.
Russia meet France in their Davis Cup quarter-final in Moscow from July 15-17.
Updated on Tuesday, Jul 5, 2005 6:14 am EDT
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