Can you believe what just happened?

Published by Leigh Rogers

Laura Robson; Getty Images

There are many reasons we love tennis. It can be entertaining, dramatic and enthralling. Sometimes the on-court action can be baffling too – but we’ve NEVER seen anything like this before…

Japanese qualifier Rika Fujiwara was keeping busy between points in a $60K ITF tournament in the Japanese city of Kurume… by doing push-ups:

It didn’t seem to help the 35-year-old world No.864, who was beaten 6-1 6-3 by Brit Laura Robson, a 23-year-old former world No.27 returning from a career-threatening wrist injury.

The whole situation had world No.19 CoCo Vandeweghe confused:

But Robson was simply impressed:

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