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Williams, who has been absent from Indian Wells since winning
the event in 2001 when she says she suffered racist abuse from
fans, said she would not be able to give her all for the
remainder of the tournament and decided to pull out.
The decision put her opponent, Simona Halep, into the final
against Jelena Jankovic, who beat Sabine Lisicki in three sets.
"I was on the practice court yesterday and everything was going
well, but literally the last two minutes I went for a serve and
felt a super sharp pain in my knee," Williams said in a news
conference.
"I even did an injection. I've never done an injection before.
If this were any other event I probably wouldn't have considered
it. But I wanted to give 200 percent. It just wasn't meant to be
this year."
In the other semi-final, Lisicki, who endured a three-set
quarter-final nailbiter on Thursday, took the first set 6-3
before Jankovic stormed back., the Serb taking the remaining
sets 6-3 6-1.
(Reporting by Cameron French; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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