The tough additional yards in the gym in the close-season are rewarded for British No1 and the draw is suddenly looking full of opportunity for her in MelbourneThe measure of Johanna Konta’s greatest victory to date – a quick,clinical win over Venus Williams on her debut in the main draw of the Australian Open – is there to see in the statistics and the performance. But that is just the visible tip of a sage far from finished.
It might bear taken the world No47 only an hour and 19 minutes to dismiss the oldest player in the women’s draw on a warm afternoon – and there could be no downplaying the emphatic 6-4, 6-2 scoreline – but hers was a triumph fashioned in midwinter, or on cold,wet London nights when she was reduced to tears on the practice court through the grinding effort of repeated drills, yet begging for more hard yards to refine her excellent tennis.
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Source: theguardian.com