Konta announces retirement from tennis: "I got to live my dreams"
WTAWednesday, 01 December 2021 at 12:10
Johanna Konta's future has been a major talking point as of late with her constant battle with a knee injury and also recently heart palpitations being an issue and the former World No.4 has announced her retirement from professional tennis on Wednesday morning.
"Grateful: This is the word that I've probably used the most during my career, and is the word that I feel explains it best at the end," she wrote on social media.
"My playing career has come to an end, and I am so incredibly grateful for the career that it turned out to be. All the evidence pointed towards me not 'making' it in this profession. However my luck materialised in the people that came into my life and impacted my existence in ways that transcended tennis. I am so incredibly grateful for these people. You know who you are.
"Through my own resilience and through the guidance of others, I got to live my dreams. I got to become what I wanted and said as a child. How incredibly fortunate I count myself to be. How grateful I am."
A four time WTA champion - her biggest title coming at the Miami Open in 2017 where she was at the peak of her powers also winning in Stanford in 2016 and Sydney in 2017.
2021 saw a final title which began a downward curve for Konta as she won Nottingham but had to withdraw from tournaments due to contracting Covid-19 before various injuries prevented her from playing at the US Open and other tournaments to end the season.
Now ahead of the Australian Open and with potentially starting a family in mind, at the age of 30, the former British Number One has called it a day.
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