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Johanna Konta

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 17, 1991

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

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If you are able to enjoy what you do and doing it the best that you can, then you're on the right track.

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I'm not a fan of drama.

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No matter how much you train, you can't replicate the stresses that the body takes when it's in a competitive environment.

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When someone doesn't have a sense of humour, it kills me.

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Tennis is a small world.

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Australia is my birth home, so it will always be a home of some sort. But I'm very happy, very pleased to be representing Great Britain. That is my home, and that is where my heart is. That is where I grew up, essentially. So when people ask me where I'm from, where is home, that's where it is.

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I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

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I want to be at the end stages of every tournament that I play - every time.

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When I started training at the age of eight, my dad used to encourage me.

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I was 14 in Barcelona, and when I initially went there, I didn't see my mum for six months and my dad for four months. Australia is far from Spain, but I don't remember how long or how short the days felt. I think what was most difficult for my parents was that if anything went wrong, they couldn't say, 'OK, we'll be there in a couple of hours.'

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I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

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Everyone gets motivated or inspired by different things.

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I was a decent 800 m. runner, not 400 - and I'm actually really proud of this: I beat the girls and the boys to win my school 800, so it was a big deal at the time; I was about 11. Then I won the district and made it to state, but I just never went, because I was training, and tennis was a big part of my life at that point.

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I think I'm a good athlete.

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My experience on clay is less than possibly on hard and grass courts, but in terms of my game style and my physical abilities, I think there's no reason why I can't adapt well to the surface and really try to maximize what I can do well on clay.

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I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall or little house.

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I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

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Not many people can say, 'I was top 150 in the world for something,' in any discipline.

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I really play tennis for me, enjoy it for me.

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