‘Learn how to lose’ – Wimbledon star clashes with opponent after breaking rule

Latvian tennis star Jelena Ostapenko (Picture: BBC)

Jelena Ostapenko told her opponent Laura Siegemund to ‘learn how to lose’ after a heated row broke out over a rules controversy at Wimbledon.

Ostapenko and her partner Marcelo Arevalo punched their ticket into the Mixed Doubles semi-finals with a straight-set victory over Laura Siegemund and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

However, their victory was overshadowed by a heated post-match debate following a rules controversy in the closing stages of the second set tie-break.

Finely poised at 7-7, Siegemund was given a time violation by chair umpire Jonas Welte after taking too long with her first serve.

The German thereby forfeited her first serve, before going on to miss her second serve long and lose the point.

Both Siegemund and Roger-Vasselin immediat...