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- Updated: September 29, 2016
Johanna Konta missed the chance to close in on a place in the WTA Tour finals after being knocked out of the Wuhan Open by Petra Kvitova.
A victory for Konta in the quarter-final match would have seen her narrow the gap to just 81 points on eighth-placed Carla Suarez Navarro in the Road to Singapore, where the top eight players for the year all compete next month.
However, she had no answer to the powerful hitting of the Czech in a 6-3 6-4 defeat in which she failed to take any of her four break points.
She was hurt further by Svetlana Kuznetsova’s three-set win over Agnieszka Radwanska, with the Russian now ahead of Konta in the race.
A run to the final in China and results going her way elsewhere would also have seen Konta break into the top 10 of the overall rankings for the first time in her career and become the first Briton to do so since Jo Durie in 1984 and just the fourth ever after Virginia Wade and Sue Barker also made …
