Tennis-Injured Garrigues beaten at Bangkok Open

BANGKOK, Oct 11 (Reuters) Second seed Anabel Medina Garrigues battled with injury for three hours before losing 6-7 6-3 6-4 to unseeded Argentine Mariana Diaz-Oliva in the first round of the Bangkok Open today.

Diaz-Oliva, who will retire this week after 14 years in the sport, said she was determined not to make the match her last and praised her gritty opponent for trying to overcome a thigh problem.

''I was quite emotional before I went on court, I thought maybe it was my last match,'' world number 219 Diaz-Oliva told reporters.

''She wasn't running very well but she was always fighting, that's her nature, she never gives up. She's a tough opponent but I wanted to win.'' Alicia Molik's bid to climb back up the rankings suffered another setback when the former world number eight from Australia went out 6-1 7-5 to American Vania King.

Third seed Nathalie Dechy of France defeated China's Zi Yan 6-4 6-4 while number five Eleni Daniilidou of Greece ousted Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh 4-6 6-4 6-3.

Croatia's Jelena Kostanic, the eighth seed, also went through with a 5-7 6-4 7-6 win over China's Meng Yuan.

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