Australia's Ashleigh Barty defeated Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3 to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday.
Here are the best stats from a final that covers the distance -
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Barty is the first Australian woman to win Wimbledon since her mentor Ivonne Gulagong in 1980. During this fortnight, Barty has worn a special outfit to honor the 50th anniversary of Golgong's first Wimbledon title in 1971.
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Barty and Pliskova were both making their first appearances at the Wimbledon finals, the first time in 44 years that two women were debuting in a Wimbledon final. In 1977, Virginia Wade defeated Betty Stowe in the final.
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This is Barty's second Grand Slam singles title after the 2019 French Open.
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Barty is the third woman to win multiple major titles since the start of 2017 alongside Naomi Osaka (four) and Simona Halep (two).
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After Jelena Jankovic and Dinara Safina, Pliskova remains one of three women to be ranked No. 1 in the WTA rankings and has not won a Grand Slam title.
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Pliskova, who lost in a deciding set to Angelique Kerber in the 2016 US Open final, is the third woman in the Open Era (since 1968) to lose her first two Grand Slam finals in the third set, behind Halep and Jana Novotna. .
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Barty, who won the girls' singles title at Wimbledon in 2011, is now the fifth woman to win the girls' and women's singles title at the All England Club, which includes Ann Jones, Karen Sussman, Martina Hingis and Emily Mauresmo. .
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Barty is the fifth woman to win the French Open and Wimbledon since the Open Era began in 1968, winning her first two Grand Slam titles alongside Golgong (1971), Chris Evert (1974), Garbine Muguruza (2016, '17) and Halep. Live. (2018, '19).
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The three-set final marked the women's final at Wimbledon in seven straight sets, the second-longest such streak in tournament history. The final of the last three sets was in 2012, when Serena Williams defeated Agnieszka Radwanska.
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The number of WTA titles Barty has won is his first full season on the tour since the start of 2017, when he took a year-and-a-half break from tennis to play professional cricket. Barty leads the tour to the WTA title in that period. Barty leads the WTA title count with four titles this season.
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Barty's 35 tour-level match victories this season led to the Women's Tour, breaking a tie with Arya Sabalenka.