Published: January 13, 2019
While women’s tennis is soon to lose its guardian angel in Andy Murray, others in the game remain who are not so disposed to the cause
If Johanna Konta is to shed the torpor that strangled her tennis in 2018, she could hardly wish for a more open battlefield than the one spread out before her at the 2019 Australian Open – apart from being in the same quarter of the draw as 23-slam champion Serena Williams.
As the British No1 prepares for her first match against the 47th ranked Ajla Tomljanovic on Tuesday, she jostles with a growing number of contenders who also will have elevated ambitions, all of them aware that, even with the return of Williams after an absence of two years, a nailed-on favourite is hard to identify.
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