She squandered a couple of match points against a rival twice a champion on this court. Yet there was an assurance about Johanna Konta’s disposal of sweet-hitting Petra Kvitova that should have Brits peering beyond Tuesday’s quarter-final meeting with Barbora Strycova. Like every self-respecting elite sportsperson, Konta will tell you she is taking Wimbledon 2019 one match at a time. But that was on the hard court of Tokyo and Konta is currently world-ranked 36 places higher than her latest Czech foe. Konta has had to play a deciding set 16 times this season and has won 14 of them.

Source: Daily Mirror July 08, 2019 17:05 UTC