The Australian Ashleigh Barty, world number one and the first favorite in Adelaide, won the WTA 500 tournament by beating in the final 6-3 and 6-2, in 65 minutes, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, who started as the seventh head of Serie.
Barty, world number 1, in a highly anticipated match, since the last two winners of the tournament were measured, he beat a Swiatek, fifth favorite and ninth in the WTA classification, who was defending the title, more easily than expected, by a clear 6-3 and 6-4, in just an hour and a half of play.
Three service breaks were enough for the Australian to prevail. The statistics reflected that Barty won the same percentage (75) of points with his serve and the rest, while Rybakina depended more on his serve (84 percent, compared to 42 to the rest).
Rybakina, who already won this tournament in 2020 and is the fourteenth in the world list, did not have a single ball this time. "break" and he fell again in his second official confrontation with Barty, who also won the Australian Open in 2020, 6-3 and 6-2.
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