Anett Kontaveit and Emma Raducanu among top seeds to fall at Wimbledon

Top-10 seeds Anett Kontaveit and Emma Raducanu suffered early exits from Wimbledon on Wednesday and both lay a chunk of the blame on a lack of preparation ahead of the Championships.

Kontaveit, the second seed, spent only 58 minutes on Court One before she went down 6-4 6-0 to Jule Niemeier in round two.

It was a similar story for British hopeful Raducanu, who lost 6-3 6-3 to Caroline Garcia on Centre Court having suffered a side injury at Nottingham at the start of June.

Estonian Kontaveit was able to win her first round tie with Bernarda Pera on Monday but revealed after her exit that she was still suffering with the after effects of testing positive for coronavirus earlier in the year.

“Well, I had it two months ago, I think, or something like that. Then I tried to come back very quickly,” the world number three revealed.

“At the French, I really struggled. I had like really big energy dips and I was tired all the time. It was tough to wake up. I slept a lot all the time.

“So, yeah, it was, then after the French, I tried to start training again and it just got worse. I started feeling more and more tired. Then I decided to take a complete break for a couple of weeks.

I'm not in the physical shape that I would like to be in.

“I felt like my energy was starting to come back and yeah, I started easier, started just with gym, and then it was only, I don’t know, 10 days until Wimbledon.

“I was thinking I wasn’t going to come if I didn’t think I could play a match or finish a match.

“I actually started feeling better in practice. I a felt pretty good, but it’s still… I had, I don’t know, a week to play tennis before a grand slam, so of course I’m not in the physical shape that I would like to be in.”

Raducanu, the 10th