Wimbledon champion in SW19 scare as virus left her stranded in resort room

“It’s the first time and it’s a new challenge for me to come as a defending champion and everybody saying like I’m kind of the favourite so it is different,” she defined. “But the goals are the same and I’m trying just to really enjoy and having all this experience from last year to actually help me to perform this year so yeah, the goals are the same it’s just maybe a different attitude a bit to the tournament.”

Rybakina has already been again at SW19 as she practised on-site earlier this week and the 24-year-old loved navigating the grounds with out anybody else round. She mentioned: “It’s been actually nice because it was still no people there and I could enjoy a bit the site and I was not rushing so much.

“So it was just nice to be around to kind of enjoy and it’s still far until Wimbledon I have a week so I think that when I come back now it’s going to be a different mood and different preparation but now these two days I really enjoyed staying there.”