Barty matches tennis legends with rare honour

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Wimbledon champion Ash Barty finished No. 1 successful the WTA singles rankings for the 3rd consecutive season, portion Katerina Siniakova topped the doubles rankings for the 2nd time.

Barty, a 25-year-old from Australia, joins Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert arsenic the lone women to pb the year-end tennis rankings 3 consecutive times.

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This week is Barty's 95th successful a enactment atop the WTA and 102nd overall.

Barty's rubric astatine the All England Club successful July was her 2nd astatine a Grand Slam tournament. She besides won the 2019 French Open and soon aft moved up to No. 1 for the archetypal clip successful June of that year.

Ash Barty with the Venus Rosewater Dish and the honour committee aft winning Wimbledon. (Getty)

Siniakova is coming disconnected a rubric Wednesday astatine the season-ending WTA Finals successful Guadalajara, Mexico, alongside doubles spouse Barbora Krejcikova. Siniakova, a 25-year-old from the Czech Republic, ended 2018 arsenic a co-No. 1 successful doubles with Krejcikova.

They won the French Open and a golden medal astatine the Tokyo Olympics together, portion of Siniakova's full haul of 5 doubles titles successful 2021.

Barty besides collected 5 titles, going 42-8. She past competed astatine the U.S. Open successful September and announced successful October she was done for the twelvemonth and would not participate the WTA Finals.

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