'You're being quite disrespectful and you're patronizing me': tennis star hits back at reporter

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'You're being quite disrespectful and you're patronizing me': tennis star hits back at reporter
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She was trying to process an agonizing quarterfinal defeat at Wimbledon, but British No.1 Johanna Konta labeled a reporter 'patronizing' and 'disrespectful' after he questioned her big-match mentality.

She was trying to process an agonizing quarterfinal defeat at Wimbledon, but British No.1 Johanna Konta labeled a reporter"patronizing" and"disrespectful" after he questioned her big-match mentality.

The 28-year-old Konta had led 4-1 in the first set but succumbed 7-6 6-1 to unseeded Czech 33-year-old Barbora Strycova, prompting some probing questions.Konta explained how difficult her opponent was, but one reporter pointed to her 33 unforced errors among a number of other issues and wondered whether she could have done better at key times."Is that in your professional tennis opinion?" she fired back.

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