Miami Open 2018: Defending champ Johanna Konta sets rematch with three-time champ Venus Williams
There is something about Miami for Johanna Konta, it seems. Just twice she has played the main draw in one of the biggest tournaments on…
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Indian Wells 2018: Muguruza and Konta lead clutch of seeds out at first hurdle
Fewer than half the seeds in the top half of the BNP Paribas Open remain standing after their first matches, with the tournament heading into…
Dubai 2018: Konta falls in Round 2, but top seeds Svitolina, Muguruza and Pliskova reach QFs
After taking a wild card into the Dubai Duty Free Premier tournament last week, Johanna Konta made a winning debut in her opener by beating…
Andy Murray and Kei Nishikori pull out of Australian Open, Konta injured in Brisbane
It came as no surprise, but Andy Murray today confirmed that he has been forced to withdraw from this year’s Australian Open due to the…
Konta, Ostapenko, Kvitova – and Americans – captivate fans
A star is born in Paris Jelena Ostapenko was just 19 and ranked 71 as she geared up for North America this March, but her…
Caroline Garcia beats Johanna Konta to last WTA Finals place
Johanna Konta must be feeling a certain sense of dejà vu as the women’s tennis season heads towards its climax in Singapore in just over…
US Open 2017: Briton Konta makes shock exit but Edmund and Norrie make round two
British expectations in tennis’s Majors have long rested on the shoulders of Andy Murray, but home support suffered a double blow this week after multiple…
Evergreen Venus Williams keeps creating history, but ends Konta’s dream Wimbledon run
The women’s championship at this year’s Wimbledon has, as so often before, become more dramatic with each passing round. Even when the draw was made…
Simona Halep and Johanna Konta battle for personal milestones in big quarter-final showdown
Where to begin on a women’s quarter-final day that boasted four of the eight players have already won a Major title? Where the oldest woman…
Andy Murray and Johanna Konta hit 44-year Wimbledon landmark with French victories
Such is the mental control that Johanna Konta maintains over her tennis life these days—and she famously turned to a sports psychologist a few years…
Wimbledon 2017: Johanna Konta cooks up a storm with surge to SW19’s second week
Until this year, No6 seed Johanna Konta had won only one match at the All England Club in five appearances. She reached the second round…
Wimbledon 2017: Johanna Konta breaks new ground to reach Round 3 after Vekic thriller
Having met and dispatched one familiar opponent in the first round at Wimbledon, world No7 Johanna Konta had to do it again if she was…
Johanna Konta allays injury fears: ‘I never was thinking that I wasn’t going to play Wimbledon’
Just as British hopes had been put on ice by Andy Murray when he pulled out of his two scheduled Wimbledon warm-up matches at Hurlingham—he…
Wimbledon 2017: Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber top seeds, Federer nabs No3, Konta No6
Overview of men’s seedings Just as last year, the top two men in tennis, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, will be the No1 and No2…
Johanna Konta into first grass final in Nottingham, and targets third title of 2017
World No8 Johanna Konta has reached her first WTA final on grass after beating Magdalena Rybarikova 6-2, 7-5 at the Aegon Open Nottingham. Top seed…
Britons on grass: Konta into Nottingham QF, Bedene makes QF in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Players across the world have been making a beeline for Europe’s grass courts for a packed three weeks of adjustments from red clay to the…
French Open 2017: Johanna Konta’s clay woes continue with Round 1 exit; in-form Svitolina wins
It is hard to believe that a woman of Johanna Konta’s quality and ranking, a woman who reached a career-high No6 just before her 26th…
French Open 2017: Upbeat Andy Murray and Johanna Konta promise to work past lean clay runs
This time last year, Andy Murray arrived in Rome having reached the final of the Madrid Masters, and was about to go all the way…
Murray, Bedene and Edmund make second-round exits in Rome, as Konta sets Venus Williams rematch
This time last year, Andy Murray arrived in Rome having reached the final of the Madrid Masters, and was about to go all the way…
Johanna Konta, out of Madrid but still upbeat: ‘I’m moving in the right direction’
As Johanna Konta arrived in Madrid for one of the biggest tournaments in the women’s tennis calendar, she had just reached another milestone in her…
Madrid WTA 2017: Pliskova and Bouchard survive marathon opening day, but Konta loses
There were certainly some tough and intriguing first-round matches thrown up by the Mutua Madrid Open draw, which got under way at the towering Magic…