The 2013 singles winner on being in hospital with anorexia, running a marathon despite not training and what Emma Raducanu should be thinking about
The first Thursday of this year’s Championships will mark 10 years since Marion Bartoli’s finest day, when the French woman won the Wimbledon title, the culmination of an outstanding and colourful career. Bartoli was two-handed on both sides and was famous for her eccentric pre-point routines. She won eight titles and was ranked in the world’s top 20 every year from 2006 to 2013, peaking at No 7.
Wimbledon was also the venue for her worst day three years later when she was told she would not be allowed to play in the legends’ event for fears over her health, having lost weight to the point where the tournament felt it could not risk a serious incident. In the days afterwards, Bartoli said she was suffering from a mystery virus, but looking back, she says she pushed herself into bad health.