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A riot at Wimbledon, at the women’s doubles tournament. Harmony Tan (WTA 115), who stunted late Tuesday evening by eliminating Serena Williams as debutante, has aroused the anger of Tamara Korpatsch.
Vincent Van Genechten
The German was in fact ready to start her doubles match with Tan, until she received a message from Tan an hour before the match. She couldn’t join Korpatsch anyway, much to the anger of the number 110 in the world.
“She only let me know via text this morning an hour before the game. She kept me here until an hour before the game,” she wrote on social media. “It feels very unfair to me. I do not deserve this! I was so looking forward to playing my first doubles tournament at a grand slam tournament. I am very sad and disappointed.”
The duo normally played against Raluca Olaru and Nadiia Kichenok, the fifteenth seed in London. Not so, because of Tan’s cancellation.
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“She can’t run because she played a three-hour game yesterday,” Korpatsch said. “I once played 6.5 hours and the next day I was back on the court for a singles match. If you can’t play a day later because you still have a game of three hours in your legs, I don’t think you are in the right place in professional tennis. And make no mistake about it. She asked me for the doubles and not the other way around.”
The German tennis star can now go home, because she lost her first round in singles in three sets to British Heather Watson.
