Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues withdrew Wednesday from the $220,000 Strasbourg International tennis tournament in France due to a back injury. Medina Garrigues had won the event three of the last four years but dropped the first set 6-4 to Kristina Barrois and was then unable to continue the second-round match. It was a disappointing day today.

By Bill Barclay PARIS (Reuters) - An edgy Justine Henin-Hardenne slithered into the French Open third round with a 6-2 7-5 victory over Belarussian Anastasiya Yakimova on Thursday.