Flying hassle of Wozniacki hassle during shock output

Caroline Wozniacki looked so demoralized in her press conference that you needed to take the ear to hear it. And no wonder: she had just had to swallow a close defeat to an inspired opponent, with a handful of insects as a hunter.

Yes, it was the annual visit of the swarm of flying ants to Wimbledon – a natural phenomenon that in a way resembles a 1950s film.

While Wozniacki It slid 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 defeat against world No. 35 Ekaterina Makarova, the little devils were buzzing around Court No. 1 as party-goers during a rave all night. Many of them ended up in his trachea.

"Can the referee stop that?" asked John Inverdale in his commentary on the BBC. "I do not know how," replied rapporteur Chanda Rubin.

Club All England, always ready to blame, pointed to Mother Nature. "Seasonal emergence occurs once a year," said an impbadive spokeswoman, "when ants get into what is often called a" bridal flight "." In other words, these insects are loved and seek to be lucky.

Wozniacki's day was going in the opposite direction. In fact, she had to wonder what mirror she had broken to deserve such bad luck.

As she later admitted, "I can not even be mad at myself because I played at the level I can.

Many of these shouted backhand winners who continued to fly along the lines as they were guided by SatNav.

And one or two had an element of fortune. At the beginning of the third inning, Makaraova's head shot caught the net and fell dead on the grbad, as if pulled by a tranquilizer dart. Wozniacki swept the ball as he rolled gently towards her, intending to let off steam by sending him into the net, but only managed to tilt him with his snowshoe frame. It was a day like that.

"Everything was going on like her," said Wozniacki, a distraught player, who came to Wimbledon in second place after winning the Eastbourne title on Saturday. "Sometimes it happens to tennis." "It's frustrating because I feel that I could have done something really good here.To keep that level, I would be very surprised if you saw it go far." [19659019WasthereahintoflackofgraceherefromWozniacki?Shewasclearlynotimpressedbyheropponent'slongswimbreaksattheendofeach"

It is perhaps for this reason that she highlighted the status of Makarova as the kind of player who scores beautiful individual victories, then buckles his loop at the end of the business. Makarova suffered well from a microscopic choking, losing four match points to be shattered while she was serving for the match, but she rallied brilliantly, decimating six of the last. Seven points and ending with a volley of drive into the open court – the 46th winner that she had hit in a quite amazing performance.

Speaking of microscopic things, what happened to the ants? As Wozniacki said: Me here. I just asked them if they had an insect repellent. There was a lot at one point. Suddenly, he calmed down a bit. Maybe they were all put together, then set out for a commemorative cigarette

Wozniacki came here with the stamp of a Grand Slam champion, having her finally broken But when asked if it made this defeat more painful, she seemed confused by the question.

"I do not understand what one has to do with the other" Wozniacki. "This is obviously not the way I wanted the day to go.I played someone who gave it all at every shot, hitting a lot of lines, a lot of crazy shots that was going on inside, she increased her level and had a little luck

"At that point, what can you do? "You just have to keep fighting, waiting for your opportunity, I fought with everything I had." (© Daily Telegraph, London)

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