MONTREAL, Ontario, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Kim Clijsters retired because of injury Wednesday night in the second set of her second-round match at the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament in Montreal.
She lost to unseeded Stephanie Dubois of Canada, 6-1, 2-3.
No. 3 Nadia Petrova of Russia lost to unseeded fellow Russian Anna Chakvetadze, 6-1, 6-4; fourth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia topped Marta Domachowska of Poland, 6-3, 6-1; and No. 6 Anastasia Myskina of Russia was beaten by Israel's Shahar Peer, 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 6-4.
Ninth-seeded Dinara Safina of Russia; No. 11 Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia; No. 13 Ana Ivanovic of Serbia; 14th-seeded Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia; and non-seeds Ai Sugiyama of Japan, Shenay Perry of the United States, Natalie Dechy and Marion Bartoli of France, all won their matches Wednesday.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 17 (UPI) --
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry died Thursday from injuries suffered when he fell from a truck in North Carolina. He was 26.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) --
"30 Rock," "The Closer" and "Dexter" received three mentions apiece when Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were read in Los Angeles Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) --
NASA says it will remember 2009 as the year during which it discovered water on the moon and mapped Earth's location in the Milky Way galaxy.
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