Davenport falls to Rubin's strokeplay
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Your support makes all the difference.Chanda Rubin upset the defending champion Lindsay Davenport to win the Los Angeles Open late on Sunday night. With her precise groundstrokes causing Davenport problems, Rubin won 5-7, 7-6, 6-3 at the Manhattan Beach Country Club.
Davenport, the former world No 1, has only just returned to action after a nine-month lay-off following major knee surgery. She began well but tired as Rubin, who beat Serena Williams in the quarter-finals, got stronger. Rubin's win gave her a fifth career title and her second of the year after victory at Eastbourne.
Davenport said the match could have gone either way but admitted: "She just played a lot tougher on those big points." The No 3 seed added: "I had a ton of chances, she had a ton of chances, and at the end she was the one who came up with the right shots at the right moments."
Davenport was let down by her normally reliable serve, coming up with 11 double faults. "I'm disgusted. A lot of my game revolves around my serve and I had zero rhythm," she said.
Looking ahead to the US Open, Davenport said: "At Stanford [her first comeback tournament] I was so happy to win my first match. I didn't want to throw this year away, but I certainly was not putting a lot of emphasis on. It was to come back and do well and not worry about the rankings, but just have fun."
* The name Amritraj will once again grace the US Open main draw more than a decade after the brothers Vijay and Anand represented India. Vijay's son Prakash won the United States Tennis Association Under-18 Super National Hard Court Championships on Sunday to earn a wild card into the last grand slam of the year.
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