{"id":62579,"date":"2021-04-24T21:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=62579"},"modified":"2021-04-24T23:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T23:57:41","slug":"barty-launches-huge-comeback-win-on-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=62579","title":{"rendered":"Barty launches huge comeback win on birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Ash Barty celebrated her birthday on Saturday by coming back from a set down to beat the fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina 4-6 7-6 (5) 6-2 and book her place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/live-scores\/porsche-tennis-grand-prix-2021\/11726\" title=\"Porsche Grand Prix\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Porsche Grand Prix<\/a> final.<\/p>\n<p>The new 25-year-old Barty clicked from the second set, when Svitolina was unable to serve out the match at 5-4. Barty was down 4-2 in the tiebreaker but fought back again. <\/p>\n<p>The Australian converted four of her 10 break point opportunities to win in just over two hours.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"97530261-1a8d-45f7-93b1-9362ce57448a\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/97530261-1a8d-45f7-93b1-9362ce57448a\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barty will play Aryna Sabalenka in Sunday&#x27;s final as she bids for her first clay title since the 2019 French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka defeated the second-seeded Simona Halep 6-3 6-2 in the second semi-final. <\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian saved all three break points she faced and converted three of her own nine opportunities to win in just over an hour.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Top-ranked Ash Barty celebrated her birthday on Saturday by coming back from a set down to beat the fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina 4-6 7-6 (5) 6-2 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=62579\" title=\"Barty launches huge comeback win on birthday\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62581,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62579\/revisions\/62581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}