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Suarez Navarro fined $40K for lack of effort

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Carla Suarez Navarro has been fined $40,000 at the U.S. Open after retiring from her first-round match with a lower-back injury.

The Spaniard had been seeded 28th at the tournament.

Suarez Navarro stopped playing Tuesday after losing the first set of her match against Timea Babos by a 6-2 score.

Tournament referee Soeren Friemel says Suarez Navarro ''did not perform to the required professional standards'' and was fined for violating the first-round performance rule.

The rule was instituted before last season to keep players who are injured from entering tournaments anyway to collect prize money and then quitting during a match. A first-round loser in singles at the U.S. Open is paid $58,000.

Suarez Navarro also retired from a match at the hard-court tournament in Toronto earlier this month.

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