BREAKING She's in! Ash Barty smashes 40 years of history to book her place in the AusOpen final tennis
Speaking after the match, Barty was thrilled with her performance.
“The conditions were really different tonight. It was nice and humid. This is Brissy weather. It was humid, the ball was a little bit slower, a little bit heavier off the strings. I just tried to run and just adapt and keep Maddie under the pump on her serve.”Barty will now compete for her first home slam title on Saturday night.“Both of them, their best attribute is that they compete. That’s why they’re here at the business end of the tournament,” Barty said.“We will keep doing out thing.
The 25-year-old has been near untouchable over the first 10 days of this year’s tournament, and can on tonight reach her first Australian Open final – where she’d become the first Australian woman since Wendy Turnbull in 1980 to do so. Her stunning 6-2 6-0 win means Barty has tallied 17 games conceded across five matches at this year’s Australian Open – putting her in the ballpark to better Graf’s extraordinary 1989 triumph, where she dropped just 24 games.
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