{"id":161998,"date":"2021-11-18T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=161998"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:58:24","slug":"barty-matches-tennis-legends-with-rare-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=161998","title":{"rendered":"Barty matches tennis legends with rare honour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wimbledon champion<\/a> Ash Barty<\/a> finished No. 1 in the WTA singles rankings for the third consecutive season, while Katerina Siniakova topped the doubles rankings for the second time.\n<\/p>\n

Barty, a 25-year-old from Australia, joins Serena Williams<\/a>, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert as the only women to lead the year-end tennis rankings three straight times.<\/p>\n

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This week is Barty's 95th in a row atop the WTA and 102nd overall.\n<\/p>\n

Barty's title at the All England Club in July was her second at a Grand Slam tournament. She also won the 2019 French Open and soon after moved up to No. 1 for the first time in June of that year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Siniakova is coming off a title Wednesday at the season-ending WTA Finals in Guadalajara, Mexico, alongside doubles partner Barbora Krejcikova. Siniakova, a 25-year-old from the Czech Republic, ended 2018 as a co-No. 1 in doubles with Krejcikova.\n<\/p>\n

They won the French Open and a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics together, part of Siniakova's total haul of five doubles titles in 2021.\n<\/p>\n

Barty also collected five titles, going 42-8. She last competed at the U.S. Open in September and announced in October she was done for the year and would not enter the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n

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