Katie Boulter had just lost a tie-break at the French Open when the death threats started.
It did not matter that the Briton would go on to win the match.
"Hope you get cancer," said one message.
Another - laced with expletives - referenced damaging her "grandmother's grave if she's not dead by tomorrow" and "candles and a coffin for your entire family".
A third said: "Go to hell, I lost money my mother sent me."
The British number two's response, as she reads through them 10 days later, is a mix of despair, resignation and fear.