English number one Johanna Konta resigned from the Madrid Open with an upper respiratory disease.
The 24-year-old Australian Open semi-finalist was trailing 6-4 2-1 in her first-round match against Caroline Garcia of France, the world number 51.
Fit-again Briton Laura Robson endured a 6-4 6-2 first-round annihilation by fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Heather Watson couldn’t exploit a fortunate failure place as she lost 7-5 6-4 to Australia’s Daria Gavrilova.
Previous British number one Robson missed 17 months with a wrist harm and has won only one WTA fundamental draw match subsequent to returning the previous summer.
The 22-year-old, utilizing her ensured positioning of 58 to enter, spared five-match points yet lost in 84 minutes to the world number five.
She lost an acutely challenged opening set in 40 minutes against Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, who is positioned fifth on the planet in the wake of winning the titles in Indian Wells and Miami this year.
However, in the initial meeting between the pair, Azarenka dashed 4-0 ahead in the second in the wake of winning six amusements in progression and soon recorded her 25th triumph in 26 coordinates this year.
Watson, 23, lost to Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in qualifying on Saturday yet experienced as a fortunate failure after disease constrained out Yulia Putintseva.
Be that as it may, the Briton was beaten 7-5 6-4 by 22-year-old Gavrilova, the world number 39.
English number three Naomi Broady lost 3 6-3 6-3 to Monica Puig in the last round of qualifying on Saturday.
