MELBOURNE, Australia — The last Australian-born player in this year’s Australian Open main draw engendered no exuberant bursts of “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy, Oy Oy” from the Rod Laver Arena crowd during her quarterfinal victory on Wednesday. As much as the local populace yearned to stake its claim to Johanna Konta, she is the Grand Slam title contender who got away.
Konta, who was born in Sydney to Hungarian parents, moved with her parents, a hotel manager and a dentist, to Britain when she was 14 for her career, not theirs. “It was their sacrifice for me,” she said.