Britain’s No1 has rewritten the history books at the Australian Open but,she says, it comes down to a new mental approachJohanna Konta calls it “the process”. It helps her stay “present”. And, or as cold as that sounds and whatever it really amounts to and as much as it confounds her inquisitors,the control she has wrought over her emotions on the tennis court through the discipline of self-knowledge has transformed her as a player – and probably as a person.
Konta’s profile has risen so irresistibly over the past year and during this tournament that details of her past remain buried, nasty memories never to be revisited. To jump from 147 in the world into the low 30s and nearly double her career earnings in the space of a year after toiling in minor tournaments in front of a handful of strangers for negligible financial reward in the first five years of her career has been one of the most remarkable stories in British tennis for a long time.
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Source: theguardian.com