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World No. 1 Barty wins Stuttgart title, first player to three titles in 2021

STUTTGART: World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty battled back from a set down for the third straight day to win her third WTA title of the year, beating Aryna Sabalenka in the final of Stuttgart on Sunday, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3. She’s the first player, man or woman, to win three tour-level titles this year—she also won one of the WTA 500 events in Melbourne right before the Australian Open, as well as the WTA 1000 in Miami. “This week’s been phenomenal,” she said. “I’ve played a lot of quality matches, and I feel like I’ve taken my tennis to a new level, in the sense of being able to be calm, playing with freedom, playing without consequence in a way, just going out there and trying to bring my best every single point.”

Stuttgart might have been her toughest conquest yet, though. She had to battle back from a set down against three Top 10 players in a row in the last three rounds: first, she dug out of a 5-3 hole in the third set to beat No. 9 Karolina Pliskova in the quarterfinals, 2-6, 6-1, 7-5; then, she beat No. 5 Elina Svitolina in the semifinals, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, after the Ukrainian served for the match up 6-4, 5-4. Finally, the aforementioned win over No. 7 Sabalenka to win the WTA 500 event. Sabalenka had won her last six WTA finals in a row—now, Barty extends her winning streak in WTA finals to five in a row. Barty was asked about her ability to turn matches around, which was on clear display in Stuttgart. “Tennis can be a strange scoring system at times—you can be a set down, but even today I didn’t feel like I was very far off,” the 2019 French Open champion said.

Barty has another impressive streak going now, too—she’s now won 10 matches in a row against Top 10 players, her last loss to a player in the elite coming against a No. 10-ranked Kiki Bertens in her second round-robin match at the WTA Finals back in 2019. She’s 6-0 against Top 10 players in 2021. And the cherry on the cake? Barty came back out after the singles final and won the doubles title with Jennifer Brady, too, the second time she’s swept singles and doubles at a WTA event, having done it at a WTA 250 event in Kuala Lumpur in 2017. She won the doubles there with Casey Dellacqua. She’s the first player to sweep singles and doubles in Stuttgart since Lindsay Davenport in 2001.

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