Two more players withdraw from ASB Classic

Published: 5:22PM Thursday January 01, 2009 Source: Newstalk ZB

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Two more players have been forced to withdraw from next week's ASB tennis Classic in Auckland.

Last year's semi-finalist Tamira Paszek and Pauline Parmentier from France have both pulled out of the tournament with unspecified injuries.

It brings the total number of players who have withdrawn to five, including world number 12 Nadia Petrova and former champion Katarina Srebotnik.

Paszek and Parmentier have been replaced by Romanian Edina Gallovits and Russian Elena Vesnina, the world numbers 78 and 79.

The tournaments top two players Elena Dementieva and Caroline Wozniacki are due to arrive tomorrow night.

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