The British No.1 had reached the quarter-finals at SW19 but was beaten 7-6, 6-1 by Strycova and she was heard swearing loudly during a mistake-laden performance.
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Johanna Konta let slip a one-set lead in the Morocco Open final in Rabat to lose 6-2 4-6 1-6 to Greece’s Maria Sakkari.
Britain’s Johanna Konta was knocked out of the Australian Open in a second-round match against Garbine Muguruza, which finished at 3:12am local time.
British No 1 Johanna Konta has withdrawn from the Sydney International for the second time, just a week before the start of the Australian Open.
The Frenchman, who was the first coach of three-time Grand Slam champion, Stan Wawrinka, will work full-time with Konta following a successful trial period.
For the third year in a row, Great Britain’s No.1 player Johanna Konta has decided to split with her coach, this time choosing to part ways with the well-respected American coach Michael Joyce, after a year of disappointment.
The Wimbledon runner-up withdrew from the Montreal tournament on Saturday citing “personal reasons”
Twenty-three-time major champion Serena Williams suffered the worst loss of her storied career on Tuesday, falling 6-1 6-0 to Britain’s Johanna Konta in the first round of the Silicon Valley Classic.
Joyce was part of Sharapova’s team between 2004 and 2011, during which time she won the 2006 US Open, 2008 Australian pen and became world No. 1.
Konta said in a statement: ‘After careful thought and discussion, Wim Fissette and I have mutually decided to end our working relationship.
Konta, 26, was bidding to become the first British woman to reach a Wimbledon singles final in 40 years
Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Su-Wei, a former top-25 player but now ranked No.109, delivered a stunning upset on Philippe-Chatrier Court to send the seventh seed packing
The British number one captured the biggest title of her career at the Miami Open on Saturday when she beat Caroline Wozniacki in the final
The world number 11 needed just over an hour and a half to see off Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 and claim her second title of 2017
Konta broke Williams twice in the first set as she moved into a 3-0 lead, before the 36-year-old American salvaged one of those breaks
The 35-year-old American served up 10 aces and thumped 25 winners over 75 minutes on Rod Laver Arena to join sister Venus in the last four, where she will play 34-year-old Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni