Serve Barty.
Serve Muguruza. Save another compromising situation Garbie. Barty had a break ball that he didn’t take advantage of. The Australian continues to hurt with her backhand cut (4-4)
Serve Barty. As Garbie did previously, the Australian now scores three consecutive games. Close the latter with a perfect balloon after Muguruza’s upload to the network (4-3)
Glorious lob @ashbarty | #YarraValleyWTApic.twitter.com/I4TwYV716h
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Serve Muguruza. The third time was the charm and the Australian breaks Garbie’s serve. With his backhand cut, he has knocked out Muguruza in this game to even the score. (3-3).
Serve Barty. He was unable to resolve the Muguruza network and Barty wins his serve with some difficulty. Only in the serve with five direct aces is the Australian showing superior (2-3)
Serve Muguruza. Barty has missed two break options in this game. Sign Garbie in a delicate moment. It’s the confirmation game. The Australian looks uncomfortable (1-3)
Serves Barty. Garbie breaks the Australian’s serve on her first break ball. Very aggressive to the rest the Spanish. She looks very loose at the start of the game (1-2).
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Serve Muguruza. Garbie closes the game with a big drop. The Australian has already shown that the rest will create problems for Muguruza. You will need your best Spanish tennis to dominate the points. (1-1)
Serves Barty. Three direct aces from the Australian in this first game of the match. The number one in the world begins strongly (1-0)
Garbie Muguruza She overwhelmed the Czech Marketa Vondrousova in the semifinals by a severe 6-1 and 6-0 and faced the local and first ranked in the world Ashleigh Barty in the end.
“Very happy to be in another final. My serve worked in the important moments and I have been taking control from the first moments. It’s always good to play against the best, in this case against number one tomorrow, “he explained after the conclusion of a match in which he maintained a high percentage of points converted with the first serve (88%).
Muguruza confirmed her condition as one of the fittest tennis players currently on the tour after paving a brilliant path to the final after conceding just ten games in his first four tournament wins.
Their previous results were 6-2 and 6-0 against the Belgian Alyson Van Uytvanck; 6-1 and 6-2 against the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova; and a double 6-2 against the American and current champion of the Australian ‘major’ Sofia Kenin.
I will have the chance to call the unfavorable head-to-head (2-1) that maintains with the main hope ‘aussie’ facing the Australian season.
Barty won the semifinals of Birmingham in 2017 and in the quarterfinals of Doha in 2019; while Muguruza scored victory in the knockout stages of Toronto in 2017.
