Tennis star and Liverpool -Fan Neal Skupski suffers double heartache while his grandmother dies on the same day as the tragic death of Diogo Jota on 28

Triple Wimbledon champion and lifelong Liverpool Fan Neal Skupski suffered a double heartache when he heard that his grandmother had died on the same day Reds -Spits Diogo Jota Was killed in a car accident.

The 35-year-old, who has won both men’s and mixed double titles, received the crushing news that his 98-year-old Nan Mary died when he came from the court after their three set of first round victory with Joe Salisbury.

“It has been a tough day,” said Skupski. ‘I found out this morning that Jota had died and then I found out that my Nan had also passed today, so it was a very tough day.

“She was a hunter. She had been sick for a little time, but it is just a difficult time, of course, in the middle of Wimbledon. She would have been proud of me for what happened today, we fight through. ‘

Skupski, who is told Liverpool scores when he stands on the field and get up at 3 o’clock to watch matches when he is on the other side of the world, said he discovered on social media on Thursday morning about Jota’s death when the news of his crash on Spanish media broke.

“It was a bit strange,” he added. ‘You look at it, you are on Twitter (now x), and you see something like a headline in Jota in Spanish, and you don’t know what it was, but it is in the style of “accident” and it is in black -white. So it was like, did he really die?

Neal Skupski suffered a double heartache, with his 98-year-old Nan Mary passed away

Skupski’s grandmother died on the same day that Liverpool Star Diogo Jota died

Skupski stated that he would consider wearing a black bracelet in the coming days

“You always think that your heroes or athletes you look up are invincible, but it just shows that everyone is human and things come to you, you don’t know what’s around the corner.”

Wimbledon will relax their strict completely white clothing code to enable players to wear black bracelets in respect for Jota.

Skupski brought one with it and considered wearing it, but decided not to do it.

“I had one today, I thought about wearing it, but I might not think, I didn’t think it wasn’t … with my nan … I didn’t want to wear it, but I might be in the coming days.”

Portuguese double player Franciso Cabral, who grew up in the same city as Jota in Porto and had mutual acquaintances, will wear a black bracelet when he plays his next game.

“He is such an idol, such an icon, such a good person,” said Cabral.

Skupski previously visited Liverpool’s training field to meet the team and played Padel with former manager Jurgen Klopp.

‘Nowadays I have spoken with some people who are connected to Liverpool and they say that Diogo was not only a great football player, but an incredible person, so sober, someone who held the whole dressing room together. He becomes a big loss for Liverpool. ‘