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Johanna Konta: "I Agree With Naomi Osaka, We Can All Be Kinder" 

Game, set and match: Johanna Konta with her canines Bono and Gizmo (Jackson Wade - 2Tone Creative )  토토사이트 검증

It's a moist evening in south-west London and Johanna Konta is feeling the warmth. The tennis expert, ladies' reality number 30 and British No1 is only days from Wimbledon's huge post-pandemic rebound and having quite recently won her first title in quite a while, everyone is focused on Britain's brilliant young lady to bring the prize home. 

Konta demands she doesn't feel the pressing factor like she used to. She's simply got connected with to her accomplice of four years and is more loose in press circumstances, after a background marked by being more monitored and getting bothered or furious in public interviews. At the last Wimbledon Championships two years prior, she blamed a columnist for being "discourteous, belittling and singling out her" after her straight-sets misfortune in the quarter-finals - a subject that is at the forefront of her thoughts this week after individual player Naomi Osaka's choice to skip public interviews to secure her emotional wellness. 

"I concur with a great deal of what [Naomi] says," Konta advises me from her home in south-west London, with her life partner, Jackson Wade sitting unobtrusively next to her. She is quick to push the intricacy of the discussion. She regards Osaka's choice to be "consistent with herself" and says it's for every player to settle on a decision "as indicated by their own conditions". Be that as it may, she additionally perceives their obligations as players. "We need to perform obligations as expert competitors... What's more, important for the arrangement is to have that exchange with the media. Not that that doesn't imply that everybody can't take care of their work somewhat better, take care of their work with somewhat more empathy and somewhat more arrangement — which at last will consistently bring about a superior meeting. I believe there's monstrous, gigantic opportunity to get better and development, most likely, on the two sides." 

Today, Konta sounds certain and loose, a gesture to what she calls a choice to "make a stride back and appreciate what I do" in the course of the most recent couple of years. She met Wade, a delicately spoken photographic artist and imaginative consultancy prime supporter from County Durham, in 2017 and illuminates at whatever point he comes into discussion, describing the second he proposed on her 30th birthday celebration in the wake of giving her a scrapbook of their relationship. She says they "giggle much together" and were content in lockdown as they are regular "loners" and had their two daschunds, Bono and Gizmo. They might want to have kids and Konta has said that will "clearly" be a considering factor in how long she plays proficient tennis, however she can't see herself halting in the several years. 

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Konta is gotten some information about this consistently and says she accepts female players are dealt with diversely by the Press, taking note of a distinction in language between features about male and female players when they lose matches. "I don't really feel that is done through perniciousness or sick plan," she says. "I believe it's without really thinking and simply absence of clearness and consideration on what it looks like and what it implies. Once more, I feel that simply falls into the domain of spaces of development." 

Konta was brought into the world in Sydney to Hungarian guardians, however they moved to the UK when she was 14, getting comfortable Eastbourne ("most athletes and ladies talk about their folks surrendering Saturdays to drive them to training. Mine moved mainlands," Konta has said, applauding their commitment). She was because of get back to her old neighborhood this week as a component of the Eastbourne International however pulled out last-minute on account of a problematic right knee, which she has been battling with since 2019. 

All things considered, she has decided to concentrate on planning for Wimbledon. England's most esteemed tennis competition at last re-visitations of the All England Club one week from now following a break last year — swarms are restricted to 50 percent limit and social separating will be set up, with the exception of the finals — and Konta positively hasn't surrendered any desire for being her country's star. Recently, she won her fourth Women's Tennis Association (WTA) title at the Viking Class competition in Nottingham — her first since the Miami Open in 2017 and, vitally for Wimbledon, her first grass court title. 

"I feel exceptionally pleased and fortunate — particularly to win the title at home, on grass, before a home group," she advises me submissively, adding that it's "quite hard" to win a title. "At the point when you start a competition, the chances of winning are in support of nobody." 

Konta's Nottingham triumph likewise makes her the primary British lady to win a WTA competition on home soil since Sue Barker in 1981. She concedes she doesn't fan-young lady frequently yet Barker is one symbol she will make an exemption for. She met the Grand Slam champion and broadcasting veteran for her web recording, The Johanna Konta webcast, the previous summer and says Barker was an "flat out ace". "She caused me to feel so great about myself and my capacities, which was totally not intelligent of what was occurring," she giggles, recalling her nerves at that point. 

Different interviewees on the digital broadcast included Formula One veteran Claire Williams and Harry Potter entertainers James and Oliver Phelps, who play the Weasley twins, whom she met at the Pride of Britain Awards quite a while prior. In any case, the web recording enveloped with May after five scenes as Konta and her kindred players were permitted to get back to socially-separated preparing at the National Tennis Center (NTC) in Roehampton. 

For the time being, she's only glad to be getting back to SW19. Toward the beginning of the main lockdown, she and her kindred players weren't permitted to hit a ball for nine weeks so she needed to transform her family room into a stopgap rec center. Preparing has since gotten back to "another ordinary", however isolating for the Australian Open in January was a test. Konta adds that she was one of the fortunate ones. Not at all like Heather Watson who recorded herself running 5km in her lodging following a positive Covid test, Konta was permitted admittance to tennis courts and a rec center, and had the option to visit her sister and nephews in Sydney after the competition. 

Konta actually has three travel papers — British, Australian and Hungarian — and in spite of her worldwide childhood (she went through longer than a year at the Sanchez Casal tennis foundation in Barcelona), London is currently home. She makes reference to that she and Wade picked their wedding band creator on account of an Evening Standard article (Taylor and Hart, for anybody pondering) and they like to eat at eateries consistently, their most loved being Japanese eating idea Inko Nito in Soho. Beside the eating out, she and Wade didn't discover lockdown as trying as some since they like to remain in, concedes Konta. They gorged each scene of Friends, played Lego Harry Potter games and purchased another doggy, Gizmo, a customary component on Konta's Instagram in their neighborhood favorite spot, Battersea Park. 

They likewise purchased a train in the expectation of disappearing with the canines this late spring, contingent upon whether she meets all requirements for the Olympics in Tokyo and whether they even approval. 

What's her opinion on enormous games like Wimbledon and the Euros being allowed while social ones like theater and celebrations are not? Konta says it's down to governments and science, however she misses unrecorded music (she named her canine Bono after the U2 frontman and her fantasy is to see Celine Dion perform live — she once had tickets, she admits, yet was too drained to even think about going). 

With respect to the Olympics, addressing Great Britain at Rio in 2016 remaining parts "the feature" of her profession, so she is grief stricken for those for whom Tokyo may be their just or last shot at a gold decoration. Not that it's the tennis players she feels frustrated about. "We are extremely, far down the hierarchy with regards to the Olympics, and I think appropriately so as a result of the measure of different freedoms we have in our game," she adds, rapidly. Fortunately, they actually have Wimbledon. Indeed, even with a large portion of the groups to root for her, that is a huge prize to focus on for the time being. 

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