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Katy Dunne suffers disqualification scare in Wimbledon qualifying

England’s Katy Dunne suffered a disqualification scare in her first-round Wimbledon qualifying victory after hitting a ball at a line judge.

The 20-year-old wildcard double-faulted to go 2-1 down in the second set, having won the first against the Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, and accidentally hit her spare ball into a line judge.

Play was suspended when the umpire called for a ruling on whether she should be defaulted but after short break a tearful Dunne was allowed to continue.

She lost the next two games and the set but the world No335 benefited from Kalinina taking a medical time-out for a wrist injury and recovered her composure to win 7-6, 3-6, 6-2.