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Schnyder pulls out injured
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Published 20/02/2004 at 16:55 GMT
The injury curse on the women's tour strikes again. This time fifth-seed Patty Schnyder of Switzerland was forced to retire with a groin strain in her quarter-final against Italy's Silvia Farina Elia at the Antwerp Diamond Games on Friday.
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Elia, the eighth seed, was leading 7-6 1-0 when Schnyder realised she was unable to continue.
Belgian Kim Clijsters eased past Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 7-6 6-2.
World number two Clijsters struggled in the first set, which she took 7-2 in a tiebreak, before finding her form to ease through the second for the loss of just two games.
"It is not easy to play against Magdalena," Clijsters said.
"She might be 29, but she is still very quick. I hope I'll be as fast at her age.
"She really put me under pressure in he first set and it made think of our encounter in (the French Open at) Roland Garros last spring where she also put me under pressure in our first set."
In other quarter-finals, Swiss Myriam Casanova defeated Czech Klara Koukalova 4-6 6-3 6-4, and Croatian Karolina Sprem beat Czech Denisa Chladkova 6-4 6-3.
Clijsters will play Casanova and Farina Elia meets Sprem in the last four.
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