IN the end, it took place in a half-full Court No.2 rather than the packed amphitheatre that is Court No.1.
For a while, it seemed as though Elena Baltacha might simply have been glad that was the case. As the early-evening sun cast its shadow across this smart little sunken bowl in south-west London, at first the Kiev-born Scot and her supporters were simply thankful for small mercies.
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