Wimbledon 2021: Ashleigh Barty defeats Karolina Pliskova for 2nd Grand Slam title

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World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty took home her second Grand Slam title by beating Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the Wimbledon championship match on Saturday. The match marked Barty’s second Grand Slam final and first at the All England Club. She won her first title at the French Open in 2019.

Newly-crowned #Wimbledon champion Ashleigh Barty says if she could be “half the person” her fellow indigenous Australian and two-time Wimbledon victor Evonne Goolagong Cawley is, she would be “very happy