British tennis participant Fran Jones stated her coronary heart had “labored a bit of too laborious” after she collapsed throughout a match in Colombia.
The 24-year-old was helped off court docket in a wheelchair however says checks have proven there might be no longer-term influence from the scare.
She attributed her collapse to not acclimatising to the high-altitude circumstances in Bogota, having had a observe session cancelled due to rain.
“Apart from my low-level pre match heat up, my first publicity to the restricted oxygen ranges at a excessive depth was my match,” Jones posted in an Instagram story., exterior
“Because the match went on, I labored laborious to provide myself the chance to remain aggressive whereas making an attempt to get used to the circumstances however progressively struggled.”
She stated “blurry imaginative and prescient” led to her collapse and he or she skilled no cramping.
“In a single day we performed a number of research and it appears my coronary heart labored a bit of too laborious on the day however fortunately not time period influence,” Jones added.
Jones was making an attempt to serve within the ninth recreation of a deciding third set on the Colsanitas Cup, a WTA 250 event, when she fell to the ground.
The British quantity 5 initially lay on her again earlier than rolling on to her facet as she was attended to by medical workers.
Argentine opponent Julia Riera, who was finally awarded the first-round match, walked over to examine on Jones and helped to raise her on to a wheelchair.
Jones beat Riera in straight units final week on her approach to successful the W75 Vacaria event in Brazil, the eighth ITF title of her profession.
In the meantime, Heather Watson went out of the Charleston Open with a straight-set defeat by Iryna Shymanovich within the first spherical.
The British quantity seven was crushed 7-6 (10-8) 6-4 by the Belarusian world quantity 215.
