GOOD AS IT SVETS

After being left in tears by Romanian camp

eight game with Konta by beating Victoria Azarenka, if she had sympathy for what the Brit went through that day, Halep shrugged: “I didn’t talk much about that subject with her. Just after the match that day, I said sorry if she felt bad.

“In my opinion, the public was very fair. Was nothing to do. Some other stuff happened there.

“But, yeah, she knows how she felt there, and I don’t want to comment any more.”

By her heavily-guarded standards, Konta’s response counted as downright prickly. She said: “They were not in my shoes. They were not being verbally threatened. I think it’s very difficult for them to understand my position in it.”

There is no doubting the meeting will be a major test of her self-drilled mental calmness.

Her feelings hidden beneath a Wimbledon-white visor, that detachment, dropped only in a celebration collapse, was the key weapon against Garcia.

Konta, 26, was the one with the steelier nerve when it counted, Garcia choking on a standard forehand in the only match point the Brit required. Only then did the visor lift, Konta (right) momentarily teary as she dropped grasswards.

She is at her most emotional immediately after a match, this time saying: “When I was a little girl, I dreamt of being in these battles and dreamt of being on these big stages.”

For a whole variety of reasons, the stage for Konta has never been bigger.

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