Kontaveit, the second seed, spent solely 58 minutes on Courtroom One earlier than she went down 6-4 6-0 to Jule Niemeier in spherical two.
It was an identical story for British hopeful Raducanu, who misplaced 6-3 6-3 to Caroline Garcia on Centre Courtroom having suffered a facet harm at Nottingham firstly of June.
High-10 seeds Anett Kontaveit and Emma Raducanu suffered early exits from Wimbledon on Wednesday and each lay a piece of the blame on an absence of preparation forward of the Championships.
Estonian Kontaveit was capable of win her first spherical tie with Bernarda Pera on Monday however revealed after her exit that she was nonetheless struggling with the after results of testing optimistic for coronavirus earlier within the 12 months.
“Properly, I had it two months in the past, I feel, or one thing like that. Then I attempted to come back again in a short time,” the world quantity three revealed.
“On the French, I actually struggled. I had like actually huge power dips and I used to be drained on a regular basis. It was robust to get up. I slept lots on a regular basis.
“So, yeah, it was, then after the French, I attempted to start out coaching once more and it simply bought worse. I began feeling an increasing number of drained. Then I made a decision to take an entire break for a few weeks.
“I felt like my power was beginning to come again and yeah, I began simpler, began simply with gymnasium, after which it was solely, I don’t know, 10 days till Wimbledon.
“I used to be considering I wasn’t going to come back if I didn’t assume I might play a match or end a match.
“I really began feeling higher in observe. I a felt fairly good, however it’s nonetheless… I had, I don’t know, every week to play tennis earlier than a grand slam, so after all I’m not within the bodily form that I want to be in.”
Raducanu, the tenth seed, had a equally disrupted build-up to the third main of 2022 after she retired in Nottingham after solely seven video games with Viktorija Golubic.
It was touch-and-go for her to make a Wimbledon return and like with Kontaveit, she managed to get via her opening match however got here unstuck in opposition to Garcia who received on Centre Courtroom in a single hour and 26 minutes.
Teenager Raducanu added: “I feel that because the French Open, the most important factor has been my time on court docket has been extraordinarily minimal.
“I didn’t really feel something on the market. I declared myself absolutely match once I walked out on to the court docket on the primary day, however I’ve performed seven hours of tennis in a month.
“To even compete with these ladies at this stage and win a spherical I feel is a reasonably good achievement.”
