Tennis writer Mark Hodgkinson reflects on the remarkable career of Jana Novotna who died on Sunday, aged 49.

No doubt you'll mostly remember Jana Novotna for a flagrant breach of royal etiquette - for weeping on the shoulder of the Duchess of Kent in the moments after losing the 1993 Wimbledon final to Stefanie Graf. 

Tears are expected in the aftermath of every Wimbledon final - it's almost part of the post-match choreography on Centre Court - but this was something quite different, and Novotna gained the lasting affections of the British tennis public, and of the millions watching around the world. And she also gained a friend in the Duchess, who couldn't have cared less what the etiquette was.