LONDON — Many cultures boast an age-old proverb centered on learning lessons from a loss.
"We learn little from victory, much from defeat," the Japanese say.
China leans on the Confucian saying with a similar message: "There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory."
The Dutch do not boast anything quite so pithy, but if Richel Hogenkamp takes anything from her swift second round exit on Wednesday, it may well owe much to a 1940s British advertising slogan: "If you want to get ahead, get a hat".
On a day when Wimbledon sweltered, the 23-year-old Dutchwoman, thrashed by Maria Sharapova, was almost the only person in the arena with an uncovered head.