Sydney-born Australian Open sensation lived down under for 14 yearsKonta says she’s blissful to be representing and calling Britain homeFor Australian tennis,Johanna Konta is the one that got absent and she’s not coming back. Born in Sydney and fluent in English and Hungarian the first language of father Gabor – Konta headed to Spain when she was 14 to follow her tennis dream. Rather than continue to criss-cross the planet, the Konta family moved to Britain, or the country the 24-year-old now proudly calls home.“I was training in Spain for 15 months and while I was there my parents didn’t want to be halfway around the world absent from their 14-year-old daughter,” she said. “So they migrated to the UK because they had Hungarian passports and that’s in the EU, so they could work there.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com