Konta ready for US Open run

Johanna Konta hopes to lean on her Olympic Games experience at the US Open in New York, which starts on Monday.

British No 1 Konta has enjoyed a successful 2016 campaign, winning her first title in Stanford last month and moving up to No 14 in the world.

She failed to make it past the second round in Rio but says just being at the Olympics, and being recognised by fellow athletes, has made her realise she is no longer an unknown quantity.

That has just added to her hunger for more success as she returns to Flushing Meadows, where she made a run through to the last 16 in 2015.

Ahead of her opening clash with Bethanie Mattek-Sands on Monday, Konta said: “I was well prepared for the Olympics in the sense that everyone told me it was nothing like anything you’ve experienced before and it was just that.

“It was very …

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