Ashleigh Barty wins her maiden Wimbledon title beating Pliskova in the final

Australia’s world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty wins the second Grand Slam title after beating Karolina Pliskova in the Wimbledon 2021 final 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 on Sanday. The top-seeded Barty adds this championship to the one she won at the French Open in 2019. “This is incredible,” said Barty, in tears. “It took me a long time to verbalise, to dare to dream it and say it.” After climbing up into the stands to hug her team, she told the Centre Court crowd: “I didn’t sleep a lot last night. I was thinking of all the what-ifs. I hope I made Evonne proud. I have to thank every single person in this stadium. You’ve made my dream so special,” she said. Barty, who acquired the junior Wimbledon title in 2011, has become the fourth woman in the Open era to go on to also lift the women’s title after Britain’s Ann Jones, Swiss Martina Hingis and France’s Amelie Mauresmo.