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Williams says it's just for support
Published on Friday, Jun 26, 2009
From Beacon Journal wire services
Even on one good leg, Venus Williams is tough to beat at Wimbledon.
The five-time champion wore a strap on her left knee Thursday but still advanced to the third round by beating Kateryna Bondarenko 6-3, 6-2.
The tournament favorite, Williams has been hampered by knee trouble in the past, but there was no indication of a problem this week until she walked onto sunny Court 1 bandaged from mid-calf to mid-thigh.
Williams let out a yelp when she appeared to pull up on a backhand in the third game, perhaps because of the knee. Otherwise, she moved across the grass freely, charging forward to pounce on short balls. She won 17 points at the net to two for Bondarenko.
Williams was coy about the reason for the tape.
''Just for support,'' she said twice in response to questions.
Williams wore the strap again later when she and sister Serena beat Virginie Razzano and Aravane Rezai in doubles, 6-3, 6-3.
The last woman to make the round of 32 was 17-year-old American Melanie Oudin, who beat darkness and Yaroslava Shvedova, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Oudin, a qualifier from Marietta, Ga., is ranked 124th and playing Wimbledon for the first time.
Another qualifier, 133rd-ranked Jesse Levine of Boca Raton, Fla., reached the third round at a major event for the first time by beating Pablo Cuevas 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3. That gave the United States three men in the round of 32, with Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish also remaining.
Golf: Perry shoots 61, leads by 2
• Kenny Perry shot a 61 to tie the course record and take a 2-shot lead after the first round of the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn. Charles Warren and Paul Goydos each shot 7-under par 63s to tie for second place. They also played bogey-free rounds. Goydos had birdies on three of his final four holes, while Warren putted for birdie 16 times.
• Retief Goosen of South Africa shot an 8-under 64 to lead by 2 after the first round of the rainy BMW International Open in Munich.
Football: Schmitt arrested
• Seahawks fullback Owen Schmitt has apologized for ''poor judgment'' after getting arrested in the Seattle suburb of Black Diamond, Wash., for investigation of drunken driving.
• The Detroit Lions signed center Dominic Raiola to a four-year contract extension.
• The Kansas Board of Regents voted to require state universities to conduct regular audits that include their athletic departments after revelations that Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder and others received tens of thousands of dollars in undocumented payments.
• Andrew Hendrix, a high school quarterback from Cincinnati told Notre Dame coaches he plans to play for the Fighting Irish in 2010.
Other: Fedorov back to Russia
• Nineteen years after defecting from the Soviet Union, Sergei Fedorov is leaving the NHL to play in his homeland. The 1994 league MVP and three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Detroit Red Wings has signed a two-year contract with Russian club Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.
• College Soccer News ranked the University of Akron men's soccer team sixth in the nation in its preseason poll. The Zips, who were ranked No. 9 in the final CSN and NSCAA/adidas polls in 2008, will return seven of 11 starters and nine letterwinners overall this fall from a team that recorded the second-highest win total in school history in 2008.
• Medina resident Mark Hillestad and teammate Barry Waddell finished 10th out of 22 Saturday in the Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge GS class race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington. Hillestad and Waddell are ninth in the standings and have placed in the top ten in five races in a row.
• German swimmer Britta Steffen set a world record of 52.85 seconds in the 100 meter freestyle at a meet in Berlin.
• Federal prosecutors charged Lester Goetzinger of Kentucky with helping an alleged extortion attempt against University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino.
• Pierce Mitchell, 8, of Hudson, Mich., remains in a hospital after a broken baseball bat sailed into the stands at a Mud Hens game in Toledo and hit him in the nose.
• Olympic decathlon champion Bryan Clay withdrew from the U.S. national track championships in Eugene, Ore., with an injured left hamstring, a decision that could force him to shut down his entire 2009 season.
• FIA president Max Mosley warned that Formula One's peace deal might collapse unless Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo apologizes for branding him a ''dictator.''
From Beacon Journal wire services
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