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Two-time defending U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters will not go for three in a row this year because of a stomach muscle injury.
Clijsters, who missed Wimbledon with an ankle injury, pulled out of a tournament in Toronto this month with a muscle strain on the left side of her stomach. In a statement Friday, she said "two weeks of rehab is not enough to heal this injury."
"Obviously I'm very disappointed," she said. "I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open."
Clijsters, ranked No. 3 in the world, said she would also pull out of tournaments in Japan and China in September.
Read more: http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen11/story/_/id/6877156/kim-clijsters-miss-us-open-stomach-injury
