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AP Photo AI109, AI111, AI110 NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) US Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer has voluntarily withdrawn from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal.

First alternate Vera Dushevina of Russia takes the third-seeded Wickmayer's place in the draw on the resort island of Bali, and meets Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues in round-robin play later Friday.

The 20-year-old Wickmayer was suspended Thursday for failing to report her whereabouts to anti-doping officials three times. She has denied any wrongdoing and said on her Web site she planned to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

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