BNP Paribas Open – New Schedule and Stosur Comments On Withdrawal

Written by: Staff on 14th March 2013

BNP Paribas Open - New Schedule and Stosur Comments On Withdrawal

epa03621171 Samantha Stosur of Australia serves to Mona Barthel of Germany during their match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California, USA, 12 March 2013. EPA/PAUL BUCK |

Samantha Stosur on her withdrawal:

“I hurt my right calf muscle in the last game of my match against Mona Barthel when I was serving for the match, so I don’t know if you can get any more unlucky than that. I think we only played another four points in that match. I felt something go in my calf and it was hurting a fair bit. Yesterday I took the day off practice and only did treatment, probably iced it about 10 times. This morning I thought I would give it a shot, and tried to go out and warm up, and after about five minutes I knew that there was no chance I could play unfortunately.”

“It’s really disappointing. I had a bit of a rough start to the year and I feel like now my tennis has really picked up, and I’ve been playing really quite well these last few days. I love the conditions here at the BNP Paribas Open and I love playing in front of this crowd, so to have to pull out without even being able to get on court is probably as bad as it gets. I think this is only the second time I’ve ever pulled out of a match in my career, and unfortunately there isn’t anything I can do about it.”

“Today I’ll talk to the physios and the doctors and work out a good plan for how many days off I need to take off and go from there. It’s all a bit up in the air at the moment because I’ve never been through this type of injury before, so it’s a matter of wait and see, talking to the people who know, and reassessing each day.”

BNP PARIBAS OPEN – INDIAN WELLS, USA

USD 5,030,408.00 (ATP)

USD 5,030,408.00 (WTA)

MARCH 04 – MARCH 17, 2013

ORDER OF PLAY – THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013

STADIUM 1 start 11:00 am

[4] E Makarova (RUS) / E Vesnina (RUS) vs K Date-Krumm (JPN) / C Dellacqua (AUS) – WTA

Not Before 1:00 PM

[6] T Berdych (CZE) vs K Anderson (RSA) – ATP

Not Before 3:00 PM

[1] V Azarenka (BLR) vs [8] C Wozniacki (DEN) – WTA

S Hsieh (TPE) / S Peng (CHN) vs [3] N Petrova (RUS) / K Srebotnik (SLO) – WTA