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Pregnant Davenport pulls out of court

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-12-18 10:30

NEW YORK - Triple grand slam winner Lindsay Davenport is pregnant with her second child and has pulled out of next month's Australian Open.

In this Aug. 27, 2008 file photo, Lindsay Davenport, of the United States, returns to Alisa Kleybanova, of Russia, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Davenport is pulling out of the Australian Open because she is pregnant with her second child.[Agencies]

The 32-year-old former world number one will be off the tour indefinitely.

"Of course this unexpected but exciting surprise now means I will be putting tennis on hold for the foreseeable future," Davenport said in a statement on Wednesday.

The American returned to the tour last year after giving birth to her first child and has since won four titles.