Tennis : Injured Knee, Kanellopoulou Sideline Garrison

Fifth-seeded Zina Garrison’s effort to defend her title at the Women’s Tennis Assn. Championships ended Thursday when she pulled out of her third-round match with Angeliki Kanellopoulou of Greece because of a knee injury.

Garrison was behind, 6-0, 3-1, when the knee she first injured last week at the Family Circle Magazine Cup became too painful for her to continue.

“I felt the pain (Wednesday),” said Garrison, who upset Chris Evert Lloyd in last year’s final. “I hurt myself in the beginning of last week. I could especially feel it when I was serving. During my match, I thought about defaulting at 0-3 (in the first set) but decided to go on.”

“‘I wasn’t even moving. I was trying to hit outright winners, but I could only do that so many times.”

Garrison said she thought she has either strained or torn ligaments in her knee.

Garrison wasn’t the only seeded player to lose Thursday. Eighth-seeded Catarina Lindqvist of Sweden fell to Laura Gildemeister of Peru, 6-3, 7-5.

Top-seeded Steffi Graf of West Germany routed Sabrina Goles of Yugoslavia, 6-0, 6-3, and second-seeded Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, also of West Germany, turned back Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria, 6-3, 6-4. Fourth-seeded Manuela Maleeva, Katerina’s sister, defeated Yvonne Vermaak of South Africa, 7-5, 6-1.

Sixth-seeded Kathy Rinaldi beat Pam Casale, 6-2, 6-4, and seventh-seeded Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina downed Susan Mascarin, 6-3, 6-3.