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Six months ago, Sonay Kartal could not stand up and brush her teeth without "being in agony".
The pain caused by a stress fracture in her back eventually subsided, but the 24-year-old Briton still had a long road to full recovery, which needed to be navigated with patience and hard work.
Kartal did not make her return to competitive action until little under a month ago.
But on Monday, she became the new British number one after an extraordinary week at the Wuhan Open, where she reached the biggest final of her career in just her third tournament back.
"In the first month or so, I was at home in bed - sometimes I had good days but there were also bad days where I wasn't really able to walk without some form of pain," Kartal said.
#pain #month #sonay
The pain caused by a stress fracture in her back eventually subsided, but the 24-year-old Briton still had a long road to full recovery, which needed to be navigated with patience and hard work.
Kartal did not make her return to competitive action until little under a month ago.
But on Monday, she became the new British number one after an extraordinary week at the Wuhan Open, where she reached the biggest final of her career in just her third tournament back.
"In the first month or so, I was at home in bed - sometimes I had good days but there were also bad days where I wasn't really able to walk without some form of pain," Kartal said.
#pain #month #sonay
4 months ago
Play at Wimbledon qualifying at Roehampton was suspended for over an hour due to a power outage that caused the tournament's Electronic Line Calling (ELC) system to fail amid extreme heat.
Players were taken off court shortly after midday on Wednesday, with the temperature in south west London reaching a brutal 33C, before returning at around 1:30pm BST.
ELC replaced replaced line judges at Wimbledon last year, but the system was accidentally deactivated during the match between Anastasia Pavlyuchenkov and Sonay Kartal, due to "human error".
Speaking ahead of this year's Wimbledon, chief executive of the All England Club Sally Bolton said there was confidence in the system - but the extreme heat is likely to have played a part in this latest outage.
"There was a temporary loss of power to part of our Qualifying venue, which meant that the electronic line calling system could not function," a spokesperson for the All England Club said. "Power has now been restored and play is expected to resume shortly."
Players were taken off court shortly after midday on Wednesday, with the temperature in south west London reaching a brutal 33C, before returning at around 1:30pm BST.
ELC replaced replaced line judges at Wimbledon last year, but the system was accidentally deactivated during the match between Anastasia Pavlyuchenkov and Sonay Kartal, due to "human error".
Speaking ahead of this year's Wimbledon, chief executive of the All England Club Sally Bolton said there was confidence in the system - but the extreme heat is likely to have played a part in this latest outage.
"There was a temporary loss of power to part of our Qualifying venue, which meant that the electronic line calling system could not function," a spokesperson for the All England Club said. "Power has now been restored and play is expected to resume shortly."
