Johanna Konta
Johanna Konta is a British
professional tennis player who represented Australia until 2012. She has won
three singles titles on the WTA tour, as well as 11 singles and four doubles
titles on the ITF circuit in her career.
Johanna Konta (/ˈkɒntə/; born 17 May 1991) is a
British professional tennis player who
represented Australia until 2012. She has won three singles titles on the WTA tour,
as well as 11 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF circuit
in her career. Konta reached her best singles ranking of World number four on
17 July 2017. She is the current British number one.
Her doubles ranking peaked at No. 88 in August 20
Konta achieved a steep rise in her ranking from the
spring of 2015 to late 2016, climbing from 150 to inside the World's top
ten,thereby becoming the first Briton to be ranked amongst the
WTA's top ten since Jo Durie over 30 years
previously. This
period included her best Grand Slam result up to that time, as she reached the
semi-final of the 2016 Australian Open,
a quarterfinal appearance at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics and
her maiden WTA title in Stanford. In
2017, she won the Miami
Open,and reached the semi-final at Wimbledon.
Born to Hungarian parents
in Sydney,
Australia, Konta moved to the UK when she was 14. She switched her sporting
allegiance from Australia to Great Britain after
she became a British citizen in May 2012.
Tournament
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SR
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W–L
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Win %
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||||||
A
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0 / 2
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9–2
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82%
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A
|
0 / 3
|
0–3
|
0%
|
||||||
0 / 6
|
6–6
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50%
|
|||||||
0 / 5
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7–5
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58%
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|||||||
Win–loss
|
1–2
|
0–1
|
0–2
|
3–3
|
9–4
|
9–4
|
0 / 16
|
22–16
|
58%
|
Tournament
|
W–L
|
Win %
|
||||||
A
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
1–1
|
50%
|
||
A
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
0–1
|
0%
|
||
A
|
3–5
|
38%
|
||||||
A
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
A
|
0–0
|
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Their professional
relationship began positively as Konta reached the semi-finals of her first
event of the new campaign in Shenzhen,
before being beaten in the last-four by eventual champion, Kateřina Siniaková.
Her good form
continued the following week in Sydney as she claimed her second WTA title,
beating world number three Agnieszka Radwańska in the final.
Konta did not lose a set in
the entire tournament.
Watson went from teammate to
opponent as Konta won an all-British clash in the second-round at Indian Wells,
before exiting at the next stage against Caroline
Garcia.
The WTA Tour then traversed
the United States to Miami, where Konta progressed to a quarterfinal
meeting with third seed Simona
Halep.
Halep was twice two points from victory, when
serving for the match at 5-4 in the second set and again in the subsequent
tie-break, but both times Konta recovered and eventually won in three sets
Konta showed no ill-effects
of the injury as she faced Hsieh
Su-wei in the opening round
of a grand slam for the second time in a row, defeating her in straight sets. In the second round she recorded a three
set victory over Donna
Vekić in a rematch of the
Nottingham final.Wins against Maria Sakkari and Caroline
Garcia saw Konta reach the
quarterfinals, where she defeated second seed Simona
Halep, denying Halep the world
number one ranking and becoming the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon
singles semi-finals since Virginia
Wade in
1978. She was beaten in the last four by Venus
Williams.
Coaching
Prior to the 2017 season, Konta recruited Belgian Wim
Fissette to be her main coach. She
also appointed Andrew Fitzpatrick as her hitting partner, and as a deputy coach
when Fissette is absent. Konta and Fissette mutually ended this partnership in
October 2017 after a poor run in the Asian swing. Despite this split, Konta
ensured the rest of her team would stay the same and she would spend the off
season looking for a new coach.
On December 6th 2017 Konta announced she was hiring Michael
Joyce for the 2018 season
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