Who is Zhang Shuai, Johanna Konta's Australian Open quarter-final opponent? | Les Roopanarine

Before arriving in Melbourne the Chinese qualifier had never won a match at a grand slam tournament but now, with a lucky locker, she is on the threshold of a semi-final Two summers ago there were only 29 women in the world better at tennis than Zhang Shuai, the Chinese qualifier who will face Britain's Johanna Konta in the last eight of the Australian Open. Zhang reached her career-high ranking on 7 July 2014, shortly after a tenacious run to the last four on the grass courts of Edgbaston. It w...