PARIS — On her first four trips to the French Open, Johanna Konta could seemingly do nothing right. This time, she can do no wrong. The 26th-seeded Konta reached the semifinals with a 6-1, 6-4 demolition of the seventh-seeded Sloane Stephens on Tuesday afternoon, taking firm control of the match early in the first set and never relinquishing it. Konta, who reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017, had never won a main-draw match at Roland Garros before this year, falling in the first round four times. With five wins to get to the semifinals, she suddenly has a winning record at the tournament that had been the least successful of her career.

Source: New York Times June 04, 2019 14:03 UTC