Johanna Konta: How to handle pressure and expectation as an elite athlete (E79)

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Last in our series of Olympic Specials is with the current British No.1 women’s tennis player, Johanna Konta. Johanna has won four singles titles on the Women’s Tennis Association Tour and in 2016, became part of Team GB at the Rio Olympics.

Johanna reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in 2017 – the same year she achieved her highest ever world ranking of number 4.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome along to the Final Olympic Special from the High Performance
0:04.8	Podcast in Association with Lotus and you have not heard a conversation like this
0:10.2	with anyone on the podcast so far. I guess there are small snippets you're
0:14.8	going to hear which you can relate to others but I don't think any athlete has
0:17.9	come on this podcast and spoken quite like this since we started. It was an
0:21.7	absolute pleasure to speak to this young lady. like this
0:23.7	young lady. Today we're in conversation with Johanna Konta.
0:29.2	I like talking. I like sharing my experiences I I've been very open in in the work that I've done with one with with with you know people in the past especially on the mental side and I think I don't I don't have any
0:46.4	hang-ups about sharing.
0:49.4	Pain times resistance equals suffering so if I'm in pain, let's say at a 10, and I'm, you know, resisting
0:57.6	at a 10, my suffering is going to be 100. But if my resistance is zero, then my suffering is zero.
1:05.0	I don't like it when I think, you know, you hear these hyperbolic words of like kind of,
1:11.0	they've completely lost control, you know they're out of it or you
1:18.1	know let things happen let things move but for sure for me personally I needed to find a space where I could channel and could
1:27.0	start re-organizing my thoughts when I became stressed or when I became so-called
1:31.8	emotional.
1:33.0	I think what's really important to mention at this point of course is that
1:38.0	Jahanikonsa didn't go to the Olympics because she sadly tested positive for coronavirus just a few weeks before the game started.
1:47.9	And I guess we all live a life where we're constantly basing
1:58.2	our opinions of ourselves on our work performances or external factors and external successes.
2:00.5	And if I'd have seen most athletes mentioned that one of the biggest moments of their careers wasn't going to happen just a few weeks before they were scheduled to do it,
2:08.0	I'd have been really worried for them.
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