Johanna Konta

Johanna Konta

Full name	Johanna Konta
Country (sports)	Australia (2008–2012) United Kingdom (2012–present)
Born	(1991-05-17) 17 May 1991 Sydney, Australia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$57,957
Singles
Career record	111–73
Career titles	0 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	204 (14 May 2012)
Current ranking	217 (18 June 2012)
Doubles
Career record	20–26
Career titles	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	304 (13 February 2012)
Current ranking	349 (18 June 2012)
Last updated on: 18 June 2012.

Johanna Konta is a British professional tennis player of Australian background, currently playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On 14 May 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 204. Formerly playing as an Australian from May 2012, Konta earnt British citizenship and will now will represent Great Britain.

Career

The second singles title of Johanna's career came at the W.O.W. Challenger in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. A 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 victory over Heidi El Tabakh netted her the victory and a brand new BlackBerry.

Konta won the biggest title of her career so far on the green clay courts of the 2010 RBC Bank Women's Challenger in Raleigh, North Carolina. In a close encounter, the Anglo-Australian defeated Lindsay Lee-Waters 6–2, 5–7, 6–4 to take the title. Johanna won her second ITF singles title of the year at the $10K tournament in Westende in Belgium. In the final she defeated Nicky Van Dyck for the loss of just one game.

In June 2011, Konta qualified for her first WTA tour event at the e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open in Copenhagen. In the first round she fell to 4th seed Lucie Safarova 4–6 7–5 6–3 in a match that lasted over two and half hours. Johanna won her fifth ITF singles title at the AEGON GB Pro-Series event in Woking in July. In the final against Laura Robson, Konta was 6–4 1–1 up when her opponent retired. After a patchy few months interrupted by injury, Konta got back to winning ways at the $10K event in Madrid, besting Lucy Brown 6–2 6–1 in the final.

She lost in the qualifying draw of the 2011 Family Circle Cup to Sania Mirza.

Coaching

Johanna formerly trained at the Roddick Lavalle Academy in Texas. In January 2011, Johanna started training at the Weybridge Tennis Academy in England under the guidance of coach Justin Sherring.

WTA tour and ITF circuit titles (8)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tour Championships (0) Premier (0) International (0) ITF Event (8)

Titles by surface Hard (5) Clay (3) Grass (0) Carpet (0)

Singles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	11 May 2008	Mostar $10,000	Red Clay	Janina Toljan	6–3 3–6 6–4
2.	28 June 2009	Waterloo $25,000	Green Clay	Heidi El Tabakh	6–2 3–6 6–3
3.	16 May 2010	Raleigh $50,000	Green Clay	Lindsay Lee-Waters	6–2 5–7 6–4
4.	22 August 2010	Westende $10,000	Hard	Nicky Van Dyck	6–1 6–0
5.	16 July 2011	Woking $25,000	Hard	Laura Robson	6–4 1–1 ret.
6.	12 September 2011	Madrid $10,000	Hard	Lucy Brown	6–2 6–1
7.	12 February 2012	Rancho Mirage, California $25,000	Hard	Lenka Wienerová	6–0 6–4

Doubles (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	13 March 2011	Irapuato $25,000	Hard	Timea Babos	Macall Harkins Nicole Rotmann	6–3 6–4

External links

• Johanna Konta at the Women's Tennis Association