MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Johanna Konta heads to Wimbledon as the best hope Britain has had of a women’s champion in years but while a triumph would be treated as a national success, she is in many ways the epitome of the modern cosmopolitan tennis player.
The WTA rankings are filled with players whose backgrounds do not fit easily into the national identities that Fed Cup team competition demands.
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