WTA Finals: Ashleigh Barty crowns her dream year with victory - and struck 4 million euros!
Australia's Ashleigh Barty has won the WTA Finals, WTA's final tournament. In the final she beat defending champion Elina Svitolina 6: 4 and 6: 3.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Nov 03, 2019, 02:43 pm
At the beginning there was very little to get for each rebounder, until 4: 4 went just seven points away from the rackets. Then it was tight: Barty survived four times debut and a breakball for Svitolina, then she came even in a tight game to three set balls, last thanks to a net scooter. A weak second serve Svitolinas then punished the Australians with a forehand winner for winning the set. Barty was the dominant player here: 19 strokes were with 18 errors without need - with Svitolina was the balance 6: 6.
Crazy: The world number one never won against Svitolina, a 0 : 5 stood until today for the girlfriend of Gael Monfils; most recently, in Indian Wells, Svitolina had prevailed in just three straight sets.
Barty shows fine tennis in set two
Barty continued to move up in set two. Despite a short-break break, she soon went 4-2 in the lead, but Sviitolina managed the rebreak. The point of the match: at 15:40 at Serve Svitolina, as Barty came back from the defensive back in the point and with great overview and clever little-Klein in the T-field at the end of the ball at Svitoina vorbeischob. In Nachfassen she managed the decisive 5: 3, then served to zero to the tournament victory.
Barty had already cleared a Porsche Cayenne Coupé as leader in the Porsche Race to Shenzhen before the start of the tournament .
The 23-year-old will finish the tennis year 2019 as world ranking first and thus crown her dream year. Barty had started the season outside the top 10, with their win in Miami in the spring for the first time the first ten cracked. At the French Open she had surprisingly celebrated her first Grand Slam victory and subsequently taken over the world ranking list top.
Biggest price check in tennis!
Thanks to her victory, Barty gets a $ 4.42 million winner check, nearly 4 million euros. The WTA Finals had moved from Singapore to Shenzhen after a bidding contest, for a total of $ 14 million.
The double competition had previously won Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic with a 6: 1, 6: 3 against Su-Wei Hsieg / Barbora Strycova. From Germany's perspective, Anna-Lena Grönefeld and her partner Demi Schuurs made it to the semifinals, where they then lost to Hsieh / Strycova.