Sania Mirza of India retired in her first-round match at the Olympic tennis event. The world No.65 was trailing Czech Iveta Benesova 6-2 2-1 when painful right wrist forced her to retire.

"It was hurting before I even came to Beijing but it's the Olympics so you have to try and give it your best shot," said Mirza who recently had wrist surgery.

The 21-year-old Mirza may still play doubles with Sunitha Rao.

Too many women's tennis players have withdrawn from the Olympics so far: Maria Sharapova didn’t even come to Beijing because of a shoulder injury, Lindsay Davenport pulled out of singles, top seed Ana Ivanovic withdrew because of a thumb injury, Tatiana Golovin also can't play due to a back injury. Injured Jelena Jankovic will play, but who knows how long she'll stay in the competition. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

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Right thumb injury eventually prevented world number one Ana Ivanovic from taking part at the Beijing Olympics.

Top-seeded Ivanovic wasn't able to practice in Beijing at all because of the injury, but she was still hoping to recover. "This is one of the worst moments of my career," said the Serb.

Ivanovic sustained the injury when she returned to training after losing at Wimbledon. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

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Shortly before the scheduled start of the tennis event at the 2008 Olympics French world No.28 Tatiana Golovin pulled out of singles and doubles.

The 20-year-old, who played only nine matches this season, was forced to withdraw from the Beijing Olympics because of a back injury.

Golovin was to play doubles with Pauline Parmentier. In singles, she will be replaced by Maret Ani of Estonia. (source: CBS Sports, photo: Getty Images)

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Tennis couple Nicole Vaidisova and Radek Stepanek was at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic.

Irresistible Radek took pictures of his 11 years younger girlfriend while she was walking with Czech flag at the event. Nice of him!

No rumors about this unexpected couple, everything seems to be all right in their relationship. (via Great Tennis Photos)

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Jelena Jankovic, who will become world number one on Monday, decided to miss the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics because of a calf strain, and now I’m reading she might not be able to take part in the event because of the injury.

"I'll practise today and I'll see tomorrow how everything goes," said Jankovic who appeared at a press conference with her right leg strapped.

"If I can't play, if I'm not going to be able to give my best on the court, I will not go. It's not a risk I will take."

Ahaha, now she doesn't want to risk her health, at the Olympics! She could've adopted that policy earlier! (source: NDTV, photo: Getty Images)

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