Foot Fault!

Despite putting in a stunning performance and achieving the seemingly impossible feat of fitting 12 aces (2 per game), 25 winners and only 5 unforced errors into a 50 minute match, Marion Bartoli also had room to feel compassion and sympathy for inflicting suck humiliation to her opponent on her home turf.

“Today I played really well, Jarka, is definitely an up and rising player and is so talented and I’m sorry I beat her that way buy I was just focusing on my own game and not really looking at the scoreboard,” Bartoli said.

“She’s a lovely girl and when I saw her in tears it was really heartbreaking but I can’t really miss a shot just for (the sake of) missing a shot so it was really hard to see her like that. But I’m sure she will bounce back, she’s an extremely talented player and I’m sure she has a great future in front of her.”

Hopefully Jarmila can comfort herself in the fact that other players have already been humiliated even worse than her this week in Perth. For example;