LONDON: The theme song for a day billed 'walkover' Wednesday may well have been Paul Simon's 'Slip sliding away'. An assembly line of players, including the women's no. 2 seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and sixth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, pulled out of the Wimbledon tennis championships with knee injuries. By early evening on a cold, windy day in southwest London, the retired hurt list was staggering. Besides Azarenka and Tsonga — there was John Isner, Marin Cilic, Radek Stepanek, Steve Darcis, Guido Pella, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Romina Oprandi — shifting the spotlight from tennis to trauma. The courts, which appeared slippery including the hallowed Centre Court, came in for...
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