British number one Katie Boulter retires from her first round match against Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina at the Birmingham Classic.
British number one Katie Boulter retired from her first round match against Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina with illness at the Birmingham Classic.
She later confirmed she was "fine" and said she had been motivated to still compete in Birmingham in an attempt to secure a seeding at Wimbledon. "From my third match I was really struggling. But I just tried to get through it and finish the week. It's probably a little bit of a combination of everything."
Former world number one Wozniacki, who won the Australian Open in 2018, lost 6-4 6-1 to Belgian fifth seed Mertens. But Heather Watson suffered a 3-6 6-4 7-5 loss to eighth seed Marie Bouzkova in a tussle lasting two hours and 53 minutes.
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