Defending champion Barbora Krejcikova lost to 10th seed Emma Navarro in the third round on Saturday. The Czech star called the doctor and physio during the third set and had her blood pressure taken. She then cried at the back of the court after going 3-5 down in the decider, and Navarro won 2-6 6-3 6-4.

Krejcikova has now said: “All I can say that the first half of the match I was definitely enjoying myself on the court and I was feeling quite well. But then suddenly out of nowhere I just lost all my energy and I couldn’t really gain it back.

“I mean, Emma was just fitter than me. Yeah, was having more energy, controlling the match at the end.

“Well, first of all, I thought that it was the food, that I ate too early. That’s why I started with all the bananas and all the sugars and stuff inside. But I wasn’t really feeling better, I was actually feeling worse and worse with the time, yeah, with the time on court.

“Yeah, it’s very sad for me and very unfortunate.”



By Fraser Watson,Yasmin Syed,Charlie Gordon,Mikael McKenzie

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