Serena Williams needs surgery on her right foot after cutting it on a broken glass at a restaurant.
The top-ranked women’s player was injured last week and will miss three tournaments leading to the U.S. Open, the WTA Tour said Saturday.
Williams has withdrawn from tournaments in Istanbul, Cincinnati and Montreal. The tour website offered no details about what happened at the restaurant.
“I’m so upset I won’t be able to play in the upcoming events because of this foot surgery,” Williams said on the website. “Thank you for all of your support. I can’t wait to get back on the courts.”
Williams won her fourth Wimbledon crown and 13th major title in July. The Rogers Cup in Montreal begins Aug. 16, and the U.S. Open starts Aug. 30.
More tennis
Top-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy cruised to a straight-sets win over Julia Georges of Germany as she tries to defend her Palermo Open title in Italy.
Pennetta, ranked 12th in the world, won 6-0, 6-4 and advanced to play fifth-seeded Kaia Kanepi in today’s final. Kanepi beat wild card Romina Oprandi 6-3, 6-2.
•Fifth-seeded Albert Montanes of Spain defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero for the first time in his career to reach the Mercedes Cup final in Stuttgart, Germany.
Montanes, bidding for his second ATP clay-court title of the season, knocked off former French Open champion Ferrero 6-3, 7-6 (8-6). Montanes had lost his previous five matches against Ferrero.
In the final, he will take on third-seeded Gael Monfils of France.
•At the Mercury Insurance Open opportunity tournament semifinals at the San Diego Tennis & Racquet Club, No. 4 seed Allison de Nike of San Diego defeated top-seed April Bisharat of El Cajon, 6-3, 6-2, and No. 3 Nazari Urbina of Tijuana beat unranked Stephanie Hoffpauir of Escondido 6-1, 6-1. De Nike and Urbina will face off in today’s final; the winner will receive a wild card into the qualifying draw of the Mercury Insurance Open that begins July 31 at The La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad.
Boxing
Queen Underwood beat defending champion Patricia Manuel to claim the 132-pound title at the USA boxing national championships in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Marlen Esparza won at 112 pounds for her fifth national title and Tiffanie Hearn captured the 165-pound division. Lauren Fisher halted Sacred Downing’s string of six straight national titles, winning at 119 pounds with a flurry of late punches.
On the men’s side, two-time Olympian Rau’shee Warren won his fourth national title, stopping Miguel Cartagena of Philadelphia in the second round of their 114-pound bout.
•Timothy Bradley kept his unbeaten record intact with a bruising unanimous decision over Argentina’s Luis Carlos Abregu in Rancho Mirage.
Bradley (26-0, 11 KOs) was tested and tagged throughout his move up to welterweight, but the WBO 140-pound champion did enough work to win comfortably on all three scorecards against the previously unbeaten Abregu at the Agua Caliente Casino in Bradley’s native Palm Springs area.
Basketball
Free agent center Brad Miller agreed to a three-year, $15 million contract with the Houston Rockets.
The 7-foot Miller averaged 8.8 points and 4.9 rebounds for Chicago last season. Miller played in Sacramento from 2003-09, including three seasons playing for current Houston coach Rick Adelman.
•No. 1 overall draft pick John Wall got a break Saturday, sitting out the Washington Wizard’s final Summer League game, and watched the Wizards blow a 20-point lead and lose 109-107 in overtime to the New York Knicks. The former Kentucky star was leading the Summer League in assists and was second in scoring coming into the day.
•In WNBA action, Tanisha Wright’s three-pointer with 52.6 seconds remaining lifted the Seattle Storm to a 73-71 victory over the host Minnesota Lynx. … Tina Charles had 22 points and 14 rebounds to help the Connecticut Sun rally for a 96-80 victory over the visiting Atlanta Dream.
Soccer
American Charlie Davies entered as an 87th-minute substitute in Sochaux’s 2-0 exhibition victory over Southampton in Fribourg, France. The 24-year-old American forward has played in all four of Sochaux’s exhibitions as he attempts to come back from a near-fatal car crash last October.
•Amy Wambach scored two goals and Megan Rapinone added another as the U.S. women’s soccer team defeated Sweden 3-0 in East Hartford, Conn.
The Americans won the second game of a two-game set with the Swedes, after they tied 1-1 on Tuesday in Omaha, Neb.
•Sebastien Le Toux scored on a penalty deep into stoppage time to give the Philadelphia Union a 2-1 win over Toronto FC in Chester, Pa., in MLS action.
Maksim Usanov’s hand ball led to Le Toux’s goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
Sports and courts
The son of former Notre Dame standout Joe Montana was among 11 Fighting Irish athletes arrested on misdemeanor charges of underage drinking at a party Friday night. A total of 44 people were arrested, police said.
The most recognizable athletes arrested were Nate Montana and Tim Abromaitis, the second leading scorer on the Irish basketball team last season.
