WTA: Johanna Konta 2019 on the road with new coach

Johanna Konta will be on the road with a new coach in 2019. From now on the Briton will work together with the French Dimitri Zavialoff.

Zavialoff already trained Stan Wawrinka and Timea Bacsinszky. For the Frenchman, the cooperation with Konta is not completely new territory, he already accompanied her at the tournament in Moscow.

For Konta, who had a disappointing 2018 season to go through and six tournaments without two wins in a row, Zavialoff is already the fourth coach since 2016.

In 2016 she was coached by Esteban Carril before she separated from Wim Fissette at the end of 2017. Kontas last coach was the US-American Michael Joyce.

The Kremlin Cup in the Russian capital showed that the partnership could be quite successful. After winning against Elise Mertens, Daria Gavrilova and Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Konta reached the semi-finals. There she was eliminated against the later tournament winner Daria Kasatkina.

Konta finished the 2018 season in 38th place in the WTA World Ranking, the first time in four years that she has been out of the top 20, with her best result in Nottingham when she lost to Ashleigh Barty in the final.