As the world's No. 1 tennis athlete, Ashleigh Barty confidently entered the match with the No. 1 seed of Jessica Pegula. The Australian player defeated the opponent with a score of 2-0 quickly.
The whole match, Barty completely overwhelmed the opponent from the US. She won 6 direct -eating balls, while the opponent broke the ball up to 3 times. All parameters of the match are tilted to the player born in 1996. Even the number of points that Barty has won when the serve is higher than the number of points that Pegula has when the serve (31 compared to 25).
In game 1, Barty won the break right in the first match after 2 opportunities. Pegula has the opportunity to balance the above distance when leading in game 4 but does not take advantage of success. Going to Game 7, Barty won the second break when scored 4 consecutive points, despite being led by the opponent 30-0. Game 1 ends with a score of 6-2.
In game 2, everything was even more fast. Barty won all 6 games, including 3 breaks, to win with a score of 6-0. In particular, in game 5, Pegula has led to 40-0 but still overturned the flag.
Meanwhile, the player is not ranked Madison Keys seed surpassing the No. 3 seed Barbora Krejcikova with the score of 6-2 and 6-3. Former number 7 in the world records 11 direct serve points but not completely overwhelming the opponent. There was a game she needed 17 times to win. However, this is still a very respectable achievement of American tennis players.
Thus, Ashleigh Barty and Jessica Pegula will meet in the first semi -final of Australia to expand 2022. The remaining semi -finals will be the confrontation between the winners in the two pair of Danielle Collins – Alize Cornet and Iga Swiatek – Kaia Kanepi.
