Safina pulls out of Australian Open

Second seed Dinara Safina retired from her fourth-round match with Maria Kirilenko today due to injury.

Sun, 24 Jan, 2010 - 11:19

Second seed Dinara Safina retired from her fourth-round match with Maria Kirilenko today due to injury.

Last year’s finalist was trailing her fellow Russian 5-4 and 30-40 on serve when she called an end to the match with what appeared to be a back complaint.

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