Here’s something I haven’t heard in a long time: Johanna Conta Champion of a WTA tournament. This Sunday, the British tennis player ended his four-year fast by winning the WTA 250 in Nottingham. Konda, who has not won a match since the 2017 Miami Open, also became the first Briton to win on home soil since 1981.
In this Sunday’s final, the world number 20 – surpassed Nina Stojanovic With more effort in the semifinals – he had a good amount of tennis to beat the Chinese Shuai Zhang, No. 46 Ranking WTA. In exactly 60 minutes of the meeting, Konda tied the sections 6-2 and 6-1 without giving the opponent big chances. The home tennis player, the first seed of the tournament, signed nine aces, won 21 of the 26 points he played with the first serve and converted five of the eight. Interval points Who had help.
With this Sunday’s record, the 30-year-old tennis player has now recorded four wins and five defeats in the WTA final. Shuai Zhang, on the other hand, played in the fourth final of his career and now has two wins and two defeats in the big results. basically Ranking, Translated as a drop of nine places for Johanna Konda this week. Despite the win at Nottingham, the English left that place early in the Roland-Carros, so will be relegated to 29th place. Zhang, on the other hand, will move up ten places to 36th.
