Johanna Konta

One of Konta's grandfathers, Tamás Kertész (1929–1989), played football for Ferencvárosi TC; he won two international caps for Hungary in the 1950s and later coached the Ghana national team.

Konta has a half sister, Eva Mumford, from her father's previous marriage.

Her sister is married to former Australian rules football player Shane Mumford.

Konta's childhood was spent in Collaroy on Sydney's Northern Beaches, where she was introduced to tennis at an after-school programme at the age of eight.

When she was 14, she attended the Sánchez-Casal Tennis Academy in Barcelona for 15 months, during which time her parents settled in Eastbourne, England.

The following week she took the title on the green clay courts of Raleigh, North Carolina, another $50k tournament, where, the day before her 19th birthday, she defeated Lindsay Lee-Waters in the final.

Highlights later in the year included another $50k quarterfinal appearance, two semifinal appearances in $25k tournaments and her second ITF singles title of the year at a $10k event in Westende, Belgium, where, in the final, she defeated Nicky Van Dyck for the loss of just One game.

Konta also played her first WTA Tour event when she entered the qualifying for Copenhagen, winning a match before exiting the event.

Johanna Konta (born 17 May 1991) is a British retired professional tennis player, having represented Australia until 2012.

She won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 11 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Johanna Konta was born in Sydney, Australia, on 17 May 1991, the daughter of Hungarian parents Gábor, a hotel manager, and Gabriella, a dentist.

Her parents had emigrated separately from Hungary and met in Australia.

Konta won her first ITF singles title at a $10k tournament in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina shortly before her 17th birthday in May 2008.

She commented that the best was yet to come.

Konta achieved a significant breakthrough at a $25k tournament in Sutton, England, in February 2009.

Entering as a wildcard, she defeated the top seed, Corinna Dentoni, who was ranked 153 at the time, and two other top 250 players to reach the final where she lost in three sets to Katie O'Brien.

Konta backed this performance up by winning the $25k Waterloo Challenger in Ontario in June, over Heidi El Tabakh.

Konta then went through a difficult time in the second half of the year, losing her first match in eight of the nine tournaments entered, six of these losses going to three sets.

However, with the help of the earlier results, she rose from 668 to 360 in the WTA rankings during the year.

Konta regained some form at the start of 2010.

In May, she reached the quarterfinal of the $50k tournament at Indian Harbour Beach, Florida.

In April 2011, she lost in three sets in the qualifying draw of Charleston to Sania Mirza.

She also fell in qualifying at Fes and Strasbourg.

She reached the main draw of a WTA Tour event for the first time when she qualified at Copenhagen in June, falling in the first round to fourth seed Lucie Šafářová, who was ranked 38 at the time, in a match that lasted over two and a half hours.

She switched her sporting allegiance from Australia to Great Britain after she became a British citizen in May 2012.

Konta became a British citizen in May 2012 and concurrently switched her sporting allegiance from Australia to Great Britain.

Konta achieved a steep rise in her WTA ranking from the spring of 2015 to late 2016, climbing from 150th to inside the world's top 10, becoming the first Briton to be ranked amongst the WTA's top ten since Jo Durie was ranked fifth over 30 years prior.

This period included her best Grand Slam result up to that time, the semi-finals of the 2016 Australian Open, a quarter-final appearance at the Rio Summer Olympics and her maiden WTA title in Stanford.

When her nationality became the subject of debate at the 2016 Australian Open after she was labelled a Plastic Brit, Konta said it was "a compliment for you guys to be interested in my Australian roots", but that she was "very pleased to be representing Great Britain ... where I grew up essentially".

Konta has three passports – British, Australian and Hungarian.

Konta lives in East Sussex, where her applications to build a home in the protected Ashdown Forest have proved controversial.

Two weeks after her retirement from professional tennis, Konta announced on Twitter that she had married her long-term boyfriend Jackson Wade.

The wedding took place on 11 December 2021, and on September 12, 2022, she announced on her social accounts, the birth of her daughter Emmeline Konta-Wade.

She was British No. 1 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on 17 July 2017.

She reached the semifinals of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the French Open.

Born to Hungarian parents in Sydney, Australia, Konta moved to England when she was 14.

She has Hungarian, Australian and British citizenship.

In 2017, she won the Miami Open and reached the semi-final at Wimbledon.

Konta had another successful season in 2019, reaching the semi-finals at the French Open and the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and the US Open.

Konta retired on 1 December 2021, after struggling with a chronic injury to her right knee, which led to her ranking dropping outside the top 100.