SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwanska refused to use a recent personaltragedy as an excuse for her shock exit from the US Open on Sunday.
In another boilover of a women’s already withoutSara Errani, Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Sam Stosur, Poland’s thirdseed was eliminated 6-4 6-4 by Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova under floodlights onLouis Armstrong Stadium.
Radwanska was aiming to become the only woman toreach the quarter-finals at the four grand slam events this year but despite ablazing start, in which she led 4-0, the 24-year-old was bundled out by hermore powerful opponent in one hour and 32 minutes.
Radwanska’s preparations for Flushing Meadows werecomplicated last month when she left the US during the Cincinnati Masters toattend the funeral for her grandfather in Poland.
“I had a couple of days to practice, to adjustto the courts, to prepare for the Open,” she said. I don’t want to makeany excuse. It’s not because I went back home that I lost today. It’s not that,for sure.”
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