Wimbledon 2017: Johanna Konta new bookies' favourite to win Wimbledon after Karolina Pliskova's shock defeat
Virginia Wade was the last British women to win Wimbledon, in 1977
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Your support makes all the difference.A British tennis player is currently the bookmakers’ favourite to win at Wimbledon this year — and it isn’t Andy Murray.
Third seed Karolina Pliskova’s shock Centre Court defeat to world number 87 Magdalena Rybarikova means that Johanna Konta is now the favourite to win the women’s singles at Wimbledon.
At the beginning of the fourth day of The Championships, homegrown hope Konta was the second favourite to triumph in next Saturday’s final, at odds of 13/2. Pliskova was meanwhile the favourite, with odds as short as 3/1.
But Pliskova’s shock defeat on Thursday means Konta is now the favourite.
Most bookmakers’ have priced her at 9/2, with French Open runner-up Simona Halep available at 8/1, world No 1 Angelique Kerber at 9/1 and the 2015 Wimbledon finalist Garbine Muguruza also at 9/1.
The other British player in the third round of the women’s singles, Heather Watson, can meanwhile be backed at 80/1.
Konta has never won a grand slam title and had only won one Wimbledon match in the past six years heading into this year’s Championships. In 2016, she beat Monica Puig in the first round before losing to Eugenie Bouchard in the second.
In the men’s draw, Great Britain’s Andy Murray — the reigning World No 1 and the defending Wimbledon champion — is the third favourite to win.
Roger Federer is the bookmakers’ favourite at 2/1, with old rival Rafael Nadal the second favourite.
Murray can be backed at odds around the 4/1 mark, narrowly ahead of Novak Djokovic, at 9/2.
Britain’s other third round representative, Aljaz Bedene, can be backed at 500/1.