Australian Open 2022 LIVE updates: Ashleigh Barty wins the Australia’s first women’s singles title in 44 years; Special Ks win first set in men’s doubles final

Ashleigh Barty d. Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6 (7-2)

World No.1 Ashleigh Barty has lastly put to mattress one of many largest droughts in Australian sport, a 44-year await a brand new home-grown Australian Open singles champion, defeating American Danielle Collins in an absorbing ladies’s ultimate.

The Australian was victorious in straight units but it surely was the way wherein the 25-year-old rallied from a seemingly down-and-out place within the second set to get better and shut it out with out the necessity for a decider that can be remembered for years, if not many years, to come back.

Barty clinched the victory 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) in a single hour and 27 minutes, including the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup to her Wimbledon and Roland Garros trophies secured in 2021 and 2019 respectively.

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