Venus Williams beaten by Jo Konta 6-4, 6-2 in Australian Open

#JoKonta #venuswilliams #AusOpen It was a shock upset in Australian Open 2016 when British No 1 Jo Konta scripted a fantastic win over eighth seed Venus Williams 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the Australian Open. Jo Konta continued with her stellar form of last season when she scored one of the finest wins of her career within 79 minutes.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 January 2016.

Venus Williams was a quarter-finalist at this event last year but she was no match for a hugely confident Jo Konta whose hit nineteen winners. It was obvious that Venus, the former Wimbledon champion, was not at her best and wore strapping on her left leg but the Australian-born Konta was hard to beat. She had been going round the tennis circuits from the age of 11. She used to go to training camps at Melbourne Park before beginning a new life in Europe.
Jo Konta would now face either Germany's Carina Witthoeft or China's Saisai Zheng.
Konta played in the Rod Laver Arena. It was her third appearance on a Grand Slam main court. She had earlier faced Maria Sharapova on Wimbledon's Centre Court and Petra Kvitova on Arthur Ashe in New York. She had lost both of the earlier matches but, there were indications that this would be different.

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