Editing Lindsay Davenport (section)

===2008===
Davenport won the [[2008 ASB Classic|ASB Classic]] in [[Auckland]], New Zealand, the first [[Women's Tennis Association|WTA]] tour event of the year. Davenport defeated [[Aravane Rezaï]] in the final. This raised her ranking to world no. 52. She was the only player in the WTA top 100 that had fewer than 10 tournaments counting towards her world ranking.

At the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open, Davenport lost in the second round to eventual champion [[Maria Sharapova]], 1–6, 3–6. This was the first time that Davenport had lost to Sharapova in straight sets.

On January 14, 2008, Davenport surpassed [[Steffi Graf]] in career prize money earned on the women's tour, garnering a total of US$21,897,501.

In March, Davenport won her second tournament of the year and 55th career singles title by beating [[Olga Govortsova]] in the final of the [[2008 Cellular South Cup|Regions Morgan Keegan Championships & The Cellular South Cup]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. She tied [[Virginia Wade]] for seventh place on the list of most singles titles won during the [[Tennis open era|open era]]. Davenport also teamed with [[Lisa Raymond]] to win the doubles title.

At the [[Tier I]] [[2008 Pacific Life Open|Pacific Life Open]] in [[Indian Wells, California]], Davenport lost in the quarterfinals to [[Jelena Janković]], 6–2, retired. She retired from the match because of a back injury sustained before the match started. At the Tier I [[Sony Ericsson Open]] in [[Key Biscayne, Florida]], Davenport defeated world no. 2 and second-seeded [[Ana Ivanovic]] in the third round, 6–4, 6–2, before losing her fourth-round match with [[Dinara Safina]], 3–6, 4–6.

In her first clay-court tournament since 2005, Davenport reached the semifinals of the [[Bausch & Lomb Championships]] in [[Amelia Island, Florida]], where she defaulted her match with Sharapova before it began, due to illness. Citing undisclosed personal reasons, Davenport withdrew from the [[2008 French Open|French Open]] five days before the tournament began.

At Wimbledon, Davenport was seeded 25th, won her first-round match, and then withdrew from the tournament because of a right knee injury.

On August 8, 2008, Davenport withdrew from the singles competition at the Olympic Games in Beijing because of a lingering knee injury.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080808-153470/US-Davenport-withdraws-from-singles-tennis-at-Olympics |title=Davenport withdraws from singles tennis at 2008 Olympics |publisher=Sports.inquirer.net |date=April 27, 2009 |access-date=May 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002132904/http://sports.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080808-153470/US-Davenport-withdraws-from-singles-tennis-at-Olympics |archive-date=October 2, 2011 }}</ref>  She and her partner, world no. 1 doubles player [[Liezel Huber]], lost in the women's doubles quarterfinals.

At the [[2008 US Open (tennis)|US Open]], Davenport was seeded 23rd and lost to 12th-seeded [[Marion Bartoli]] in the third round. Davenport was scheduled to play the [[Fortis Championships Luxembourg]] in October, but withdrew before the start of the tournament.