Quotes from Johanna Konta

Australia is my birth home, so it will always be a home of some sort. But I'm very happy, very pleased to be representing Great Britain. That is my home, and that is where my heart is. That is where I grew up, essentially. So when people ask me where I'm from, where is home, that's where it is.

I want to be at the end stages of every tournament that I play - every time.

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

If you are able to enjoy what you do and doing it the best that you can, then you're on the right track.

There's a real difference between singles tennis and working as part of a team.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

One thing that is 100% certain is that emotions are always incredibly high in a match and, I would imagine, definitely more so in a grand slam final.

Not everybody gets a home slam; not everybody gets home events. I am part of a very select few who get that opportunity, so I can only really be grateful for that.

I am getting better and more knowledgeable in how I hydrate and how I make my drinks and how I eat and things like that.

I definitely think about lifting the big trophies, and I dream about winning slams or making it.

Nothing quite beats playing on home soil in front of a home crowd.

What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.

Everyone gets motivated or inspired by different things.

I was 14 in Barcelona, and when I initially went there, I didn't see my mum for six months and my dad for four months. Australia is far from Spain, but I don't remember how long or how short the days felt. I think what was most difficult for my parents was that if anything went wrong, they couldn't say, 'OK, we'll be there in a couple of hours.'

I was training in Spain for 15 months, and while I was there, my parents didn't want to be halfway around the world away from their 14-year-old daughter. So they migrated to the U.K. because they had Hungarian passports, and that's in the E.U., so they could work there.

When I go into the gym, I'm working on getting my muscles stronger, and I try to treat my mind in the same manner.

For me, it's just staying in the present, enjoying what I'm doing, and making sure I'm making the kind of improvements and moves forward that I want to.

When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being No. 1 in the world. That dream stays the same as long as you're doing the career that you're on. I think it would be silly for that to change.

I think I've always loved playing in North America.

I want to make sure I leave no stone unturned when it comes to my career.

I made my older sister cry playing Monopoly once.

I'm a British citizen, and I'm incredibly proud to represent Great Britain. I've also represented Great Britain in the Olympics, so I'm definitely a British athlete.

No matter how much you train, you can't replicate the stresses that the body takes when it's in a competitive environment.