UTTER mayhem. A blood-bath. Tennis carnage on a scale never seen before. Call it what you will, but spectators on day three of Wimbledon were left reeling from the first match to the last. First it was Lleyton Hewitt, bundled out by a little known German-Jamaican challenger circuit player, Dustin Brown, then it was Maria Sharapova outgrunted by the biggest grunter of all, Michelle Larcher de Brito then Jo-Wilfried Tsonga succumbing to a wrist and knee injury. The womens No2 Victoria Azarenka had to withdraw after slipping on the court, then Marin Cilic. But the biggest shock in the most extraordinary day of losses, complaints and withdrawals was the dramatic upset departure of the emperor of...
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