Johanna Konta’s final match was the Nottingham Open in June, the place she beat Shuai Zhang of China within the remaining
British primary Johanna Konta fought again from a set right down to defeat third seed Elina Svitolina and attain the Canadian Open third spherical.
Svitolina seemed in management when she took first set in simply 38 minutes.
Nonetheless, Konta confirmed outstanding resilience, successful eight out of 9 video games to take the second set and go a double-break up within the decider on her solution to a 3-6 6-3 6-2 win.
She faces Russia’s Anastasia Potapova or American Coco Gauff within the final 16.
It’s Konta’s first ever win over the world quantity 5 and Olympic bronze medallist.
The end result and efficiency was all of the extra outstanding given Konta was taking part in in her first match because the Nottingham Open in early June.
She withdrew from Wimbledon later that month when a member of her teaching workforce examined optimistic for Covid-19, earlier than later pulling out of the Tokyo Olympics after contracting the virus herself.
