“This one I think I never had that before, the shooting pain like this. I had some injuries to my back before where it just was tiredness the next day of the match, but this one was really out of nowhere. I felt like someone shot me in the back.”

After her fourth-round run at the French Open a few months later, the 30-year-old confessed it was still a problem. “It’s my back since the Australian injury. Still we are managing it. Yeah, unfortunately, sometimes it’s responding good to the treatments that we do, sometimes it’s not,” she explained.

“So every time that we have the little blocks of — like right now is going to be before grass, so we try to do scan to see if it’s improving, if it’s not. Then, you know, try to do something or take some weeks off.”