My partner commuted back and forth from London but we missed being together. I moved back to the UK in 2008, three years after my stroke. But I was physically unable to work (I’d been in marketing).

Medvedev’s outburst came during the third set when he lost a 13-stroke back-and-forth with Thailand’s Kasidit Samrej to fall behind 40-15. With Medvedev up at the net, Samrej’s shot clipped ...