Double Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova said Johanna Konta has the quality and consistency to become a fixture in the women’s top 10, despite putting her rise on hold at the Wuhan Open.
Kvitova ended the 13th-ranked Briton’s chances of joining the top 10 this week when she knocked her out of the Chinese tournament’s quarter-finals 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday.
But the former world number two – who has ended the last five years in the top 10 – was full of praise for the big-serving 25-year-old.
Former world No 2 Petra Kvitova praised Britain’s Konta saying she deserves to be in the world’s top 10. Photo: Xinhua
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“She doesn’t really have any weakness, which is always kind of tricky,” she said.
“She has the quality, for sure. I mean, she’s a very consistent player ... I think that she really has a quality to be one of the top 10 players.”
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A strong run at next week’s China Open in Beijing could see Konta, who is due in Hong Kong for the October 8-16 Prudential Hong Kong Open, become the first British woman to break into the top 10 since Jo Durie reached world number five in 1984.
Konta has enjoyed a fine season to rise from 146 to number 13 in the world. Photo: Xinhua
