SHE was so sure she’d bomb out in the opening week of Wimbledon she bought two tickets to Harry Styles’ concert in Vienna for the first Saturday of the competition.
After all, she’d been out of tennis for six months after giving birth and she’d had to fight hard to qualify for the famous grass court championships.
Once ranked third in the world, she’d slipped to 1 344th place – so it seemed feasible to expect an early exit in London and to plan to nip to Austria to see her idol on stage during his Love On Tour concert.
She never got there. Elina Svitolina became one of the darlings of Wimbledon
