mortified

She feels complete "shame" and is "mortified" at the danger she placed herself in.

I was both mortified and bemused, curious about who would pay good money to spread such obvious nonsense.

"I was mortified, I was so embarrassed because I didn't know the people well at that stage, so it was so humiliating," she said.

From that point Boulter showed tremendous fight to claw back the deficit, but the 28-year-old was then mortified to put a volley into the net at 30-30 in the ninth game.

The awkward silence afterwards would once have mortified her, but not any more.