By Etienne Stekelenburg
October 10 2004
American No.2 ranked Lindsay Davenport won her second title at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, taking the first one in 2001, defeating French No.1 ranked Amelie Mauresmo who was forced to retire with a thigh injury on her right leg.
“I don’t
know about the injury, we have to see the exams tomorrow”, 25-years-old
Mauresmo said about the problems with her right upper leg. “I don’t know if I
am going to play Moscow, we have to wait for the results tomorrow. I just felt
a pain and I thought it could be helped with a bandage but I just could not
continue the match”.
About the
match she said: “It was a close match and I am very disappointed it had to end
that way”. Mauresmo will keep her No.1 ranking after moving into the final, the
gap however is a mere 15 points now that Lindsay Davenport won the Porsche
Tennis Grand Prix final. That means if Mauresmo is still bothered by the injury
and withdraws from Moscow she will lose her No.1 spot to Lindsay Davenport next
week. If Mauresmo still plays, the one that advances just one round further
hold or take over the top spot of the WTA Tour ranking.

Lindsay
Davenport today won her 7th title this year being at the end of her career she
is playing her best tennis since coming back from her foot surgery. She earlier
announced her retirement during next years season, she didn’t reveal which tournament
will be her last.
The match
started off being very close and competitive but soon it showed that Amelie
Mauresmo had trouble moving and she called the medic when they were 21 minutes
into the match. Eight minutes later Amelie Mauresmo came back onto the court
being treated and with a bandage on her right upper leg. Ten minutes later when
Davenport had won the first set 6-2 Mauresmo said she could not continue the
match and had to retire.

“I have
never won a final in this manner”, Davenport said. “It would have been better
if I had won the title by beating the No.1 in the world and not like this. It
has been a tough week and to end it like this is just unfortunate.”
Moving on to the next stop in Moscow it's Davenport’s chance to reclaim the No.1 spot she had before. “It's a great feeling getting close to No.1 all I can do is compete at the highest level and hope to stay healthy, I just have to play my best tennis in the fall and maybe hold to No.1 rank till the end of the year. That would be great”, the 28-year-old from California said about being one of the best players of the world again.
