NEW YORK, July 20 (UPI) -- The United States Tennis Association said Wednesday Jennifer Capriati will miss the U.S. Open tennis tournament because of a lame right shoulder.
Ninety-eight of the top 100 women in the world will headline the singles field at the event.
That includes the winners of the past seven U.S. Open Championships: world No. 1 Lindsay Davenport, Serena and Venus Williams, Justine Henin-Hardenne and Svetlana Kuznetsova, who captured last year's title.
The 29-year-old Capriati, a three-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1, has missed all of 2005 after sustaining a shoulder injury last November. She currently is ranked No. 42 after undergoing surgery on the shoulder in January.
She won back-to-back Australian Opens in 2001 and 2002, as well as the French Open in 2001 and had reached the semi-finals in Grand Slam events in three of the past four years.
The 2005 U.S. Open will be played Aug. 29-Sept. 11 at Flushing, N.Y.
