Tennis - WTA Premier - Aegon Classic - Edgbaston Priory Club, Birmingham, Britain - June 22, 2017 Great Britain's Johanna Konta during her second round match against USA's CoCo Vandeweghe Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra
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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