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Johnna Konta overpowers Agnieszka Radwanska in Sydney final

By The Sports Xchange
Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Photo by David Silpa/UPI
Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Photo by David Silpa/UPI | License Photo

Johnna Konta put on a dominant performance to win her second career WTA title.

The British player nailed 32 winners and seven aces while rolling to a 6-4, 6-2 victory over second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska to win the Apia International Sydney in Australia on Friday.

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The sixth-seeded Konta needed just 82 minutes to dispatch Radwanska.

"I'm just overall happy with how I was able to progress throughout this tournament," Konta said afterward. "I felt each match that I was playing I was thinking a little more clearly and getting that much more match-tight, as the saying is.

"But overall, very happy with the match I played today. I really felt I definitely maintained a high level throughout and I made it very difficult for her to do much today."

Radwanska, of Poland, felt like there wasn't much she could do to counter Konta's strong play.

"She was just playing unbelievable tennis from the beginning till the end," Radwanska said. "And normally you're thinking that she can't play like this the whole match ... you can go forward because she's gonna have some worse couple of games. But she didn't.

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"She was just playing whole match so aggressive with pretty much everything in, and I couldn't do much."

Konta is hoping her strong performance in Sydney will help her in the upcoming Australian Open at Melbourne. She faces Kirsten Flipkens in her first-round match.

"Obviously how I have done here, I take it as a really positive thing, as a nice reward along the way for the hard work that myself and my team have put in every day," Konta said. "But it's not a reflection of how next week will go, how the rest of the year will go. It's back to everyday hard work, because that's what dictates how I do."

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