Complaining, clay and injuries: the social round-up

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What has been happening on social media in the tennis world?

How good is technology… that is until it is not working of course! That’s how we are starting today’s social round-up…

WhatsApp, a popular messaging app, has recently had outage issues and became the top worldwide trending topic on Twitter as a result. It affected and frustrated many in the tennis world, including Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Jamie Delgado, the coach of Andy Murray:

Andy’s older brother Jamie Murray had another reason to complain:

Meanwhile WTA player Alla Kudryavtseva is questioning her own tour about the lack of live streaming (aren’t we all!):

Kevin Anderson is all smiles though:

So is Sergiy Stakhovsky on his beloved clay:

The stars are arriving in Madrid ahead of next week’s big tournament, where Maria Sharapova and Elina Svitolina found the practice courts:

Pablo Cuevas and Grigor Dimitrov did too – but seem to have their sports confused:

Bencic Bencic isn’t there. The Swiss talent took to social media yesterday to share some disappointing injury news – and was overwhelmed with messages of support from the likes of Elena Vesnina, Roger Federer, Monica Puig and Alexander Bublik:

Injured Naomi Osaka is also missing life on tour:

Popular Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis can relate… but finally has good news to share with his fans as he prepares to make his injury comeback next week:

Meanwhile Ana Ivanovic is enjoying a new sport in retirement:

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