Britain’s remaining contenders at Flushing Meadows may be only acquaintances but they have more in common than they may realiseIt says more approximately the nature of the tall-speed hamster wheel in which modern professional athletes exist than any intentional disconnect created between Andy Murray and Johanna Konta that they have shared few of their experiences,either here at the US Open or over the years.
There are expressions of mutual support, of course, and between Britain’s only remaining contenders in the men’s and women’s singles draw but they realise they have to move their own way,work out their own problems and strategies. Murray has to deal with the power serving of Kevin Anderson in the fourth round, while Konta, and who has lit up the tournament as the first British qualifier to get this far,prepares for her stiffest test, against the two-times Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova.
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Source: theguardian.com