: Right at home: With Ash Barty on court, there’s no such thing as impossible #IndiaNEWS At 1-5 down in a set, most tennis players are thinking about conserving their energy for the next set. By most

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Right at home: With Ash Barty on court, there’s no such thing as impossible #IndiaNEWS
At 1-5 down in a set, most tennis players are thinking about conserving their energy for the next set. By most permutations and combinations, it is a lost cause but Ashleigh Barty clearly isn’t like most people and she clearly doesn’t think like most people either.The world No 1 staged a rather incredible turnaround from the above-mentioned scenario to become the first Australian winner of an Australian Open singles title in 44 years and joined Serena Williams as the only active female player with a Grand Slam title on all three surfaces.Barty had been out-hit by Danielle Collins in the second set. The American, playing a super aggressive style of first-strike tennis, just went for her shots and for a while, Barty had no answer to it.In the first set, Collins had taken the ball inside the baseline only 39% of the time. But in the second set, in the middle of her great run, she was hitting 69% of balls inside the baseline. It was a big increase and it changed the way the match was being played. Somehow, Collins had managed to take the slice out of the equation, or at least neutralised it to a great extent. This was Barty’s trump...Read more

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