Ash Barty is containing her pleasure regardless of hoisting a second Adelaide Worldwide trophy in three years and finishing a uncommon title double in an ideal begin to her 2022 season.
The world No 1 underlined her firming Australian Open title favouritism with an emphatic 6-3, 6-2 win over 14th-ranked Elena Rybakina on Sunday.
Her straight-sets victory over the Kazakh improved Barty’s file towards top-20 rivals to an excellent spectacular 17-1 for the reason that starting of final 12 months.
The highest-seeded dwelling hope additionally beat teenage prodigy Coco Gauff, 2020 Australian Open champion Sofin Kenin and 2020 French Open winner Iga Swiatek en path to lifting the 14th trophy of her profession.
The world No 1’s domination of her rivals following a four-month layoff had former Wimbledon semi-finalist turned commentator Jelena Dokic declaring she had by no means seen Barty bettered ready for an Australian Open.
“It’s all relative, isn’t it? It is dependent upon what number of matches. It is dependent upon match-ups,” Barty stated. “There are such a lot of totally different variables coming into what you guys are seeing, and generally what you see is totally totally different to how I really feel.
“I really feel good main as much as an Australian Open like I've yearly. Each preparation is exclusive, every preparation is totally different. So we take it for what comes and what it's, transfer on, attempt to do the very best that we are able to in each alternative, whether or not that’s right here in Adelaide or it’s in Melbourne.
“It has completely no impact on the way in which that I put together or the way in which I’m pondering main ahead simply because it’s a grand slam.”
With out query, although, Barty will head to this week’s Sydney Tennis Basic brimming with confidence forward of the Open beginning on 17 January.
One of many heaviest hitters in girls’s tennis, Rybakina challenged Barty early, rocketing down the quickest serve of the event as video games went with serve till 3-3.
Barty discovered herself double break level down at 15-40 within the seventh recreation. However, as she has achieved all event, the world No 1 produced her finest tennis whereas underneath the gun to carry serve with an ace, an induced error and two enormous crosscourt forehands.
Pissed off at lacking her second, Rybakina dropped her personal serve the very subsequent recreation with a flurry of unforced errors as Barty cast to a 5-3 lead.
Champion at Memorial Drive in 2020 additionally, Barty closed out the set to like after 29 minutes. Momentum firmly on her aspect, Barty gained one other break within the opening recreation of the second set as Rybakina’s double-faulting proved pricey.
The match was all however over when Barty clinched the double break to energy to a 4-0 lead, earlier than Rybakina formally submitted after simply 64 minutes.
“I felt like when my again was towards the wall this week, I used to be capable of have some actual readability with what I wished to do and the patterns that I wished to play,” Barty stated.
“That’s a bonus. You'll be able to’t all the time execute that.”
Teaming with fellow Australian Storm Sanders, the Wimbledon champion topped her memorable week with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Darija Jurak Schreiber and Andreja Klepac within the doubles remaining.
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