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Serena will play with knee injury through Olympics
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More from OlympicsCARSON — Serena Williams plans to keep playing through a left knee injury despite advice from a doctor and her father that she rest with less than three weeks before the Beijing Olympics.
She figures her injured knee "will be old news" by the time the Olympic tennis competition begins Aug. 10.
Williams withdrew from Saturday's semifinals of the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford after injuring her knee. She said an MRI exam afterward revealed an inflamed joint.
Williams, ranked fifth in the world and seeded second for the East West Bank Classic, received a first-round bye and is scheduled to play her opening match Wednesday.
Serena's older sister, Venus, and Lindsay Davenport already withdrew from Carson because of right knee injuries.
In Monday's action, Melinda Czink, who got into the East West Bank Classic as a "lucky loser," upset No. 13 Virginie Razzano of France, 6-3, 6-3. Czink, ranked 121st on the WTA Tour, had lost in the second round of qualifying on Sunday. But the 25-year-old Hungarian was placed in the 56-player singles field when Svetlana Kuznetsova withdrew.
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