Quadro masculino:
El español Rafael Nadal, número uno del mundo, perdió ante el australiano Lleyton Hewitt en un partido de la exhibición que se disputa en el Hurlingham Club, en Londres, y dio muestras de no estar aún recuperado de su lesión de rodilla, lo que pone en duda su participación en Wimbledon.
Nadal, aquejado de un problema de rodilla desde su eliminación el pasado mes en los octavos de final de Roland Garros, estuvo lento en sus movimientos durante el partido con Hewitt, y perdió por 6-4 y 6-3.
El jugador español señaló, tras disputar el segundo encuentro, tomará su decisión sobre su participación en el All England Tennis Club, donde defiende el título, y la comunicará en conferencia de prensa.
Quadro feminino:
As there will on Michelle Larcher De Brito, the 16-year-old from Portugal, who was surprisingly handed a main-draw wildcard along with Laura Robson and the usual collection of Brits on Monday night.
De Brito became a minor sensation at Roland Garros with her ridiculous screaming during rallies. She also has a very unsporting habit of wildly celebrating opponents' errors.
One of her opponents in Paris complained, the umpire told her to turn the noise down, but nothing further was done and she charmed us afterwards with an engaging defence of her one-woman cacophony.
But the authorities are known to be concerned (there is pretty much universal agreement that the screams (not grunts) are way over the top) and she now faces a tabloid frenzy at SW19.
The newshounds will chase her down Somerset Road and the radio programmes will be full of her high-pitched firework display, unless her advisors can get her to see sense.
Her tennis is good enough to make the headlines but, if she draws a top seed in the first round and gets placed on Centre Court (possibly under the roof), there will only be one story in town.
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