US OPEN UPDATE
Safin, Canas Withdraw From U.S. Open
NEW YORK - Marat Safin, the 2000 champion, pulled out of the U.S. Open on Thursday with a wrist injury.
Safin also withdrew from the French Open and Wimbledon this year. He's played just one match since April — and he didn't finish it, quitting during the first set at Los Angeles last month.
The Russian was seeded 26th for the U.S. Open.
Guillermo Canas also pulled out of the Open which starts Monday, saying he hasn't fully recovered from wrist surgery.
Safin and Canas will be replaced in the field by "lucky losers" — the highest-ranked players to lose in the final round of qualifying.
Both of the injured players originally were put in French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero's quarter of the draw, with Canas his original first-round opponent.
Juan Ignacio Chela now will be seeded 33rd and move into Safin's spot in the draw.
If another seeded player withdraws, Tim Henman would be seeded 34th and be moved out of a first-round match against No. 4 Andy Roddick.
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DAVIS CUP NEWS
Argentina's Coria to Make Davis Cup Debut Against Spain
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In-form Argentine Guillermo Coria will make his Davis Cup debut in the semifinal against Spain in Malaga next month after being named in the team on Thursday.
Coria, seeded fifth for next week's U.S. Open, has been in brilliant form this season, winning four titles -- the Hamburg Masters Series, Stuttgart, Kitzbuehel and Sopot -- and reaching the French Open semi-finals.
He will join Gaston Gaudio, David Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri in captain Gustavo Luza's team, an Argentine Tennis Association (AAT) spokesman told Reuters.
Argentina meet 2000 winners Spain in Malaga from September 19 to 21 with Coria and Gaudio the likely singles players and Nalbandian and Calleri the doubles pairing.
Coria and Calleri, last picked more than two years ago, are in for Mariano Zabaleta and Lucas Arnold, who helped the team reach their second consecutive semi-final with a 5-0 win over holders Russia in their quarter-final in Buenos Aires in April.
Spain have named Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Moya as their singles players and Albert Costa and Alex Corretja for the doubles.
Australia host Switzerland in the other semifinal
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Safin, Canas Withdraw From U.S. Open
NEW YORK - Marat Safin, the 2000 champion, pulled out of the U.S. Open on Thursday with a wrist injury.
Safin also withdrew from the French Open and Wimbledon this year. He's played just one match since April — and he didn't finish it, quitting during the first set at Los Angeles last month.
The Russian was seeded 26th for the U.S. Open.
Guillermo Canas also pulled out of the Open which starts Monday, saying he hasn't fully recovered from wrist surgery.
Safin and Canas will be replaced in the field by "lucky losers" — the highest-ranked players to lose in the final round of qualifying.
Both of the injured players originally were put in French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero's quarter of the draw, with Canas his original first-round opponent.
Juan Ignacio Chela now will be seeded 33rd and move into Safin's spot in the draw.
If another seeded player withdraws, Tim Henman would be seeded 34th and be moved out of a first-round match against No. 4 Andy Roddick.
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DAVIS CUP NEWS
Argentina's Coria to Make Davis Cup Debut Against Spain
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In-form Argentine Guillermo Coria will make his Davis Cup debut in the semifinal against Spain in Malaga next month after being named in the team on Thursday.
Coria, seeded fifth for next week's U.S. Open, has been in brilliant form this season, winning four titles -- the Hamburg Masters Series, Stuttgart, Kitzbuehel and Sopot -- and reaching the French Open semi-finals.
He will join Gaston Gaudio, David Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri in captain Gustavo Luza's team, an Argentine Tennis Association (AAT) spokesman told Reuters.
Argentina meet 2000 winners Spain in Malaga from September 19 to 21 with Coria and Gaudio the likely singles players and Nalbandian and Calleri the doubles pairing.
Coria and Calleri, last picked more than two years ago, are in for Mariano Zabaleta and Lucas Arnold, who helped the team reach their second consecutive semi-final with a 5-0 win over holders Russia in their quarter-final in Buenos Aires in April.
Spain have named Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Moya as their singles players and Albert Costa and Alex Corretja for the doubles.
Australia host Switzerland in the other semifinal
--->News from REUTERS
