Speaking to the Associated Press, she said: “It was very heartbreaking and it was very difficult. There was nothing good and nothing fun about having Covid and having to miss Wimbledon and the Olympics. There’s just no way around that.”
It took around two and a half weeks for Konta to return to the practice courts following her Covid ordeal and start preparing for the current North American hard court swing, where she has now picked up a new injury.
“We took it very, very slowly. Then I got my full check, in terms of my heart, my lungs, everything, and everything came back all OK. Then we started doing a little more and here we are,” she said.
There is still hope her withdrawal in Montreal is a precaution with her sights set on the final Grand Slam of the season, where her best result is a quarter-final showing in 2019.
