Five-set Wimbledon losses can be hard to handle.
Sergiy Stakhovsky suggests his 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 1-6, 9-7 defeat to an injured Borna Coric is not hard to explain: He choked.
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The world No. 49, who struggled on serve and sprayed a forehand wide on match point, dropped serve to lose the match.
After a gut-wrenching loss Stakhovsky awarded himself the title of Wimbledon choker in this tweet.
Coric, who was struggling with an apparent hamstring injury that compelled him to serve-and-volley at times, scored his first career Wimbledon win.
Stakhovsky has felt the highs and lows of life on the SW19 lawns.
Two years ago, the 116th-ranked Ukrainian produced a most seismic shocker stunning seven-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (5), in the second round, snapping the reigning champion's record streak of 36 consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinals.