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I'm a poster child for those players and those people who just base their career on resilience and on hard work. I'm a poster child for people who have been told they're nothing special or not that good or that their time is gone or they don't show that much promise. I'm a poster child for people who ever feel too old to make it in anything.
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So I feel like I share in that legacy with a lot of other players. I was very vocal about that and how it impacted me. Back in 20 when I broke through, there was a lot of talk about that and I gave a lot of time for that. Konta: I'd like to consider myself part of the movement for the mental side of the game. WTA Insider: When it comes to leaving your stamp on the game, what would you consider your legacy? "I'd like to consider myself part of the movement for the mental side of the game." So I'd say the difficulty basket is a lot heavier than the achievement basket. Because I think when you think of everything you're putting in to make it, to achieve certain things, everything you have to do to get that one thing, it's just multiplied.
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It's also interesting when you add up the good things that have happened versus the difficult things, I think there will be very few players that would say that that basket with the good things is more full than the one with the bad things. So I think that's probably one of my biggest achievements for me. And I think probably one of the things I'm most proud of is staying playing in spite of everything going on. I think that has been a consistent difficulty throughout my career at different parts, different times. And in tennis, there's been some.īut you know, I'd say probably the toughest part of my life and my career has been more personal. There's so many things that have been difficult in my life, which I haven't shared and I don't talk about because, quite frankly, I don't want to. Konta: Probably one of them has been this past year in giving myself that space to make a life-changing decision, I think has been probably one of the toughest. "I'm a poster child for people who have been told they're nothing special or not that good or that their time is gone or they don't show that much promise." So for me, as a whole in my career, that was the first time where I really felt like, "Oh, actually, I really love playing tennis." I hadn't felt that for a long time before then, since I was a young child. They were just so kind and again opened up their home and literally treated you like you were just a part of the family. So I stayed with that family for years and years, and I really loved that family. In Pelham, I stayed with a host family, who I stayed with for years before because obviously I played a majority of my career on the U.S. A lady had this beautiful house, and I just felt very grateful that I got to stay in this beautiful house with this really kind woman who just opened up her home and just let me and my coach stay there. In Jackson, we stayed with a really wonderful family. Just being grateful from the fact that the sun was shining, or I got to go to Barnes and Noble, or I got to go to Whole Foods, things like that. It was like I was coming up for air and it felt liberating and just really joyful. I just remember playing that trip with a lot of joy and gratefulness and, honestly, it was like a breath of fresh air. That was the first trip where I felt like those conversations and those exercises and everything we were doing, I started putting into practice a little bit. It was a very heavy weight to play with, and we were basically trying to just play because I enjoy to play. Before that, I was really struggling to find joy amongst all the stress and the sacrifices that my family made to give me these opportunities. That was in that period where I started really bring on board the work that I was doing with Juan at the time. playing the ITF Challengers in Jackson, Pelham and Dothan. It was 2015 and I was on a trip with one of my coaches at the time, Jose. You know what, actually? This is before I kind of made it on to the main tour.
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WTA Insider: What do you consider your career highlight or standout memory?
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From rediscovering the joy that would spark her mid-career evolution into the best British woman in 30 years to her philosophical perspective with respect to the overwhelming sacrifice asked of tennis players, Konta looks back on her legacy. In the final entry of Johanna Konta's exit interview, the former World No.4 reflects on the highs and lows of her career.