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Description: Because Matches Are Never Played in the Media Tent
In a tiny interview area in the media center within Arthur Ashe stadium, Yanina Wickmayer met with a Belgian reporter and this tiny blog. She’d advanced to the second round of the US Open in convincing fashion on Tuesday, defeating former US Open finalist Vera Zvonareva. How was she even here? Hadn’t we seen the 33-year-old retire in in the first set of her qualifying final on Friday?
There’s lucky losers and then there’s very lucky losers.
“I got a back spasm in the first game of the match, which never happened to me before,” Wickmayer recalled. “I’ve had back spasms but never in the first game. If you have an injury that you can recover from, then you’re allowed to be a lucky loser and we get tested by the doctors before we get to go back on court and have to prove ourselves through tests to go back on, because there are other girls who want a chance.”
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