Bethanie Mattek-Sands still cannot bring herself to watch video replay of the moment that led to the scream heard ’round the world.

In the first game of the third set of her second-round match against Sorana Cirstea at Wimbledon on July 6, Mattek-Sands was approaching the net when her right knee buckled, sending her sprawling on the grass court and hollering for help.

“I lived it,” Mattek-Sands said Wednesday. “I don’t need to see it.”

One glance at the kneecap that had ruptured and dislocated so badly that it was pushed up into her quadriceps was enough. Mattek-Sands’s expletive-laden pleas to Cirstea were heard not only by everyone courtside but around the world via live television feeds. Her husband, Justin Sands, ran to her side and covered the damaged limb with a towel.

“I just remember going up to the net and hearing a loud pop,” Mattek-Sands, 32, said. “I felt like my leg couldn’t support me. Then I looked at it and it didn’t even make sense. I thought I could adjust it and put it back in place, but I couldn’t. That’s when I screamed, ‘Help me.’”