Bizarre pictures reached the tennis world yesterday from the ITF women's tournament in Landsville, Pennsylvania, USA. Coco Vandeweghe, former number 9 in the WTA rankings, made a disconcerting impression on the tennis observer, to put it mildly, after a break in the game against Georgian Ekaterine Gorgodze due to the weather. So the American played one ball after the other somewhere in the field, sometimes returned with the left, sometimes with the right and seemed completely lethargic and unmotivated.

The images of the bizarre warm-up spectacle immediately made the social channels of the Internet unsafe and led to a series of malicious comments in the direction of the 29-year-old. Probably completely wrong, as Vandeweghe tries to explain with a statement: "I suffer from a severe sinus infection that restricts my breathing."

"No intention of ever disrupting the game"

“Late in the second sentence, I also got symptoms of heat exhaustion. My whole body became extremely cramped and I was very sick. ”Vandeweghe said she took advantage of the break in the game to receive medical treatment on site. This did a great job of getting them back to their normal body temperature and rehydrating them.

The New Yorker also let the referee know that she didn't want to warm up once the game resumed. Instead, she suggested that Gorgodze warm up with her trainer, which the rules would even have allowed.

Ultimately, rain forced the match to be postponed to the next day. Vandeweghe had to find out that he could not compete. “I tried to warm up this morning and decided to withdraw from the tournament when I realized that I couldn't have been there with all my strength.” In conclusion, the two-time WTA Tour tournament winner summed up: “I had no intention of ever disrupting the game. "