LONDON — On a chaotic day at Wimbledon when injuries forced seven players to quit, Maria Sharapova managed to play and finish her match.
The result was the same: Sharapova is out of the tournament.
The third-seeded Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon champion, was stunned, 6-3, 6-4, by 131st-ranked Michelle Larcher de Brito, a qualifier from Portugal, in the second round.
Sharapova slipped and fell several times on the grass on Court 2 and received medical treatment from the trainer in the second set.
It wasn’t serious enough to force Sharapova to quit, as so many others did Wednesday either by walkover or mid-match retirements. Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.
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