TENNIS ROUNDUP : Mandlikova Will Retire After Wimbledon

After 13 years, $3 million and four Grand Slam titles, Hana Mandlikova is calling her singles career quits after Wimbledon.

Mandlikova, 28, who rose to No. 3 in the rankings but is now 31st, made her announcement Wednesday at the Pilkington Championships in Eastbourne, England.

“I am like an orange without any juice,” she said. “The determination is not there, the motivation is not there and I am too proud to be losing to players I should not lose to. That is why I am walking away.”

She added that she would like to be remembered “as a champion who always tried her best and had a beautiful style of tennis that people wanted to watch.” Her “biggest regret was not winning Wimbledon.”

Mandlikova will continue to play doubles at selected events and will make a limited number of appearances in exhibition matches.

Mandlikova spent seven years ranked among the top 10 and reached No. 3 at the end of 1984 and 1985.

In 1980 she defeated Wendy Turnbull to win the Australian Open, her first Grand Slam victory. The following year she added the French Open title with a finals victory over Sylvia Hanika, and in 1985 she posted consecutive victories over Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova to win the U.S. Open.

She won the Australian Open again in 1987.

Navratilova needed only 59 minutes to ease into the quarterfinals of the tournament at Eastbourne with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Britain’s Samantha Smith.

Navratilova faces the fifth-seeded player, Natalia Zvereva of the Soviet Union, who beat Nathalie Tauziat of France, 6-2, 6-0.

Mary Joe Fernandez of the United States, seeded third, and Czechs Helena Sukova, No. 4, and Jana Novotna, No. 7, also advanced to the quarterfinals.

Fernandez defeated Natalia Medvedeva of the Soviet Union, 6-1, 6-3.

Sukova ousted American Robin White, 6-3, 6-3, and Novotna downed Leila Meskhi of the Soviet Union, 6-4, 6-1.

Earlier in the day, Smith completed a rain-delayed, 2-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 upset over 12th-seeded Rafaella Reggi of Italy.

Aaron Krickstein, bothered by an arm injury for about a month, said at Manchester, England, that he will probably skip Wimbledon.

Krickstein made the comments after defaulting an opening-round match to Finland’s Aki Rahunen in the second set in the Manchester Open. Krickstein was seeded first in this tournament and had been assigned the No. 8 seeding for Wimbledon, which begins Monday.

“I don’t know exactly what the injury is. But it’s some sort of tendinitis in the upper arm. I think it may have started with stringing my racket too tight and then using heavy balls in Europe and playing in cold weather,” Krickstein said.

Wednesday’s matches were few at Manchester because of rain. In the most important of the three matches completed, San Diego’s Kelly Jones, who is unseeded, upset seventh-seeded Alex Antonitsch of Austria, 6-3, 7-6 (7-0) in the second round.