‘Quality’ Konta belongs in top 10, says Kvitova
Double Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova said Johanna Konta has the in the women’s top 10, despite putting her rise on hold at the Wuhan Open.
Kvitova ended the 13th- ranked Briton’s chances of joining the top 10 this week when she knocked her out of the Chinese tournament’s on Thursday.
But the former wo wor r l d number two - -- - who has ended the in the top 10 -- was full of praise for the big- serving 25-year-old. “She doesn’t really have any weakness, which is always kind of tricky,” she said. “She has the quality, for sure. I mean, she’s a very consistent player... I think that she really has a quality to be one of the top 10 players.” A strong run at next week’s China Open in Beijing could see Konta to break into the top 10 since Jo Durie reached world number At the beginning of 2015, Konta was ranked 146th but she and reached the last 16 at the end the year inside the top 50. This year, she reached her first Grand Slam maiden WTA title in Stanford in at the Rio Olympics.
But level- headed Konta said she’s not concerned about whether or not she reaches the top 10. “I’m not thinking about what will come. A lot of those things are actually not all under my control. It also depends on how other players do,” she told reporters after the “So now I’m going to be in Beijing and I’m going to try to do the best that I can in Beijing.”