World number 149 Heather Watson and world number 7 Coco Gauff spoke to Sky News about Wimbledon's historic decision to allow women to wear dark undershorts to preserve players dignity when on their period. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
"We're running around sweating, doing the splits on the court.
The 31-year-old would have received 240 points, which would have seen her ranking soar as well as gain automatic entry into other tournaments. "It went from like the best two weeks in my career to post-Wimbledon, I went back into qualifiers for Grand Slams whereas I would have been main draw for Slams for pretty much the next year.
American Coco Gauff, who famously came through Wimbledon qualifying before upsetting Venus Williams en route to the fourth round on debut in 2019, said:"I was on my period at Wimbledon last year and it was very stressful. You have the period underwear to help you but it's still at the back of your mind.
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