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Davenport yet to decide on retirement

NEW YORK, SEPT. 11. All in due time, Lindsay Davenport will decide whether she wants to retire. Only right now is not that time.

``I swear, it's so hard to answer that,'' she said after limping off after a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 loss to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the U.S. Open semifinal on Friday.

``I mean some days, I'd like to. Other days, I don't want to. But maybe,'' she said. ``It would be tough to walk away knowing that, `Oh, I still could have won a Slam,' or, `I was still at the top.'''

Davenport hurt her left hip while warming up on Friday morning. After a fast start, the injury began to flare up and she struggled.

At 28, Davenport would have ascended to the top of the WTA Tour rankings by winning the Open. Instead, her 22-match winning streak came to an end — she had won four straight tournaments leading up to this event.

Mixed doubles

Bob Bryan won his second straight U.S. Open mixed doubles title, pairing this time with Vera Zvonareva to beat Alicia Molik and Todd Woodbridge 6-3, 6-4 in Friday's final.

Bryan, who plays Davis Cup doubles for the United States with twin brother Mike, won last year's Open with Katarina Srebotnik.

In 2002, Bob Bryan and Srebotnik lost in the final to Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond.

Too exhausted to play

Too exhausted to play after beating Jennifer Capriati in the singles semifinal, Elena Dementieva pulled out of the women's doubles semifinals at the Open on Friday.

Dementieva and Ai Sugiyama were scheduled to face two-time defending champions Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez. In the final, the top-seeded Ruano Pascual and Suarez will play second-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elena Likhovtseva.

Kuznetsova and Likhovtseva advanced by beating Barbara Schett and Patty Schnyder 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday. — AP

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