Simona Halep was left to reflect on what might have been after the cruelest of netcords sapped her spirit and turned her Wimbledon semi-final against Canadian Eugenie Bouchard upside down on Thursday. After an explosive start, in which the pair flung each other around Center Court with some brutal groundstrokes, third seed Halep looked poised to take the set from 4-2 up in the tiebreak. "I served really well at 3-2, but then there was a lucky ball when she hit the net at 4-2," Halep told reporters. "I played until the end, but in the second set I lost my energy and I couldn't believe any more that I could finish the match in the right way." The powerful duo shared some punishing exchanges until Halep, the first Romanian woman to reach the semi-finals at the All England Club, rolled her ankle in the fourth game and required treatment from the trainer.
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