Konta’s victory made her the first British woman to win a main-draw match at the Dubai Championships FRANCOIS NEL/GETTY IMAGESWith Andy Murray unable to defend the last of his ATP World Tour titles next week at the Dubai Duty Free Championships, Britain will lose the United Arab Emirate as an overseas outpost of tennis dominance. Unless of course Johanna Konta bucks the trend of the past 11 months and gets her name back on the WTA’s list of champions. Konta has not won a title since last March when she captured the most lucrative title of her career at the Miami Open — when she pocketed $1,175,505 — and gathered more than a third of the total ranking points that currently place her 11th in the WTA rankings. As the tournament’s seventh seed, Konta, 26, is not expected to win this week with the…

Source: The Times February 20, 2018 17:03 UTC