CoCo goes bananas, and out of Australian Open

MELBOURNE: Ailing American 10th seed CoCo Vandeweghe lost the plot over a lack of bananas as she was dumped out in straight sets in Round One.

“I’m waiting for the bananas,” she told chair umpire Fergus Murphy after the first set when asked why she wasn’t ready to play. “Why should I feel uncomfortable because the court is ill-prepared?” After around another minute some fruit was brought and Vandeweghe ate it — and was then hit with a code violation for delaying the match. It couldn’t give her an energy boost as she slumped to a 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 defeat to Hungary’s Time Babos.