When Jo Durie reached the French Open semi-finals out of the blue

Jo Durie, the last British woman to reach the semi-finals before Jo Konta, had won just one game in three years at Roland Garros By Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports Blog The past is indeed a foreign country. Before Johanna Konta's exploits at Roland Garros this week, the last British woman to reach a French Open semi-final was Jo Durie in 1983. Things looked very different in the spring of 1983. Manchester City had just been relegated, Brighton had almost beaten Manchester United in the FA Cup f...