Top seed Caroline Wozniacki eased into the US Open last 16 on Saturday as Tomas Berdych became the latest victim of the injury curse which has swept through the season's last Grand Slam tournament. Wozniacki, the runner-up to Kim Clijsters in 2009 and still searching for an elusive first major, made the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over America's world number 103 Vania King.
The Dane next faces either 15th-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2004 champion, or Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova, ranked 118 in the world. Czech ninth seed Berdych became the 17th player to quit the US Open through injury or illness when he retired from his third round match against Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic.
Berdych was suffering from a right shoulder injury and needed treatment at the end of the first set, which he lost 6-4, and then called it quits when he was down 5-0 in the second. "I already knew there was a problem. I had it in Cincinnati, so it was a case of just trying," he said.
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