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After 55 hours of travel, No. 4 Radwanska loses 1st match

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Agnieszka Radwanska, a player not known for outbursts on court, had plenty of good reasons to take out her frustrations on her racket in her first-round Olympic match.

Fifty-five of them, to be exact — the number of hours it took her to get from Montreal to Rio de Janeiro this week. She didn't arrive until Wednesday night, leaving far less practice time than she had hoped, and then she got sick, too.

The fourth-seeded Radwanska played Saturday on the first day of the tournament and was upset by 64th-ranked Zheng Saisai 6-4, 7-5, with an uncharacteristic racket smash along the way.