Konta faces perils of Pauline after month of injury misery

JO KONTA will try to build momentum for the European tennis season after suffering injuries in the past month.

She plays French world No 57 Pauline Parmentier in the third round of the Miami Open today after a rain-interrupted win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich.

It will be only Konta’s third match in six weeks and she said: ‘It was very difficult. A lot of stop and start with the rain and you had to manage the frustrations. I was pleased with how I competed in the third set. With the breaks, the momentum could have shifted and gone the other way.

‘I’m here to, hopefully, play a full ten days. It’s humid here and tends to be windy. It’s quite different from last week in Indian Wells but I usually enjoy it.’