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'Lucky loser' in
Rios pulls out of French with knee injury
Posted: Friday May 24, 2002 12:58 PM
PARIS (AP) -- Marcelo Rios withdrew from the French Open on
Friday with a knee injury.
Rios, seeded 22nd, had to quit his match against Juan-Carlos
Ferrero in the third round at Monte Carlo in April because of knee
pain.
Rios was a quarterfinalist at the Australian Open and a
semifinalist at Miami this year. He was a quarterfinalist at Roland
Garros in 1998 and 1999.
He will be replaced in the field by a "lucky loser," the
player with the highest ranking who lost in the final round of
qualifying.
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