{"id":63074,"date":"2021-04-25T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=63074"},"modified":"2021-04-26T00:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:59:01","slug":"rivals-classic-reaction-as-barty-drives-off-with-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=63074","title":{"rendered":"Rival's classic reaction as Barty drives off with car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top-ranked Ash Barty beat Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-0 6-3 on Sunday to win the Porsche Grand Prix<\/a> in Stuttgart, her first title on clay since the 2019 French Open.<\/p>\n

The Australian player clicked into gear for the final's second set, which she won in just 20 minutes, with Sabalenka taking a medical timeout ahead of the third.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka emerged with a bandage around her right thigh and couldn't prevent Barty from going on to claim her 11th career title.<\/p>\n

"I feel I have taken my tennis to a new level this week," said Barty.<\/p>\n

"I wasn't far off in the first set, there was a tactical shift when I stepped into the court more in the second set. I was proud to be able to put balls in difficult places which made her take more risks."<\/p>\n

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It was the third straight come-from-behind win for Barty, who celebrated her 25th birthday by playing three sets against Elina Svitolina in Saturday's semi-finals. Barty also won in three sets against Karolina Pliskova in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka offered up a classic reaction after being downed by Barty, who scored a Porsche Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo along with her winner's cheque.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COGNjshD0BY\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp<\/a><\/p>\n

Barty has an endorsement deal with Jaguar, so it's unclear what will become of her new car.<\/p>\n

Later Sunday, Barty and Jennifer Brady defeated Desirae Krawczyk and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4 5-7 10-5 in the doubles final. Barty became the first player to win both the singles and doubles at Stuttgart since Lindsay Davenport 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

In singles, Barty is on something of a historic run against her fellow top 10 players.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattRobertsTTP\/status\/1386325084349116421?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashbarty\/status\/1386421586316566533?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n

Barty saved eight of the 10 break points she faced against Sabalenka, converting five of the 12 opportunities she created to win in 1 hour, 47 minutes.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Sabalenka, who defeated Simona Halep to reach the final, had been going for her first career title.<\/p>\n

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Top-ranked Ash Barty beat Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-0 6-3 on Sunday to win the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart, her first title on clay since […]<\/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\/63074"}],"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=63074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63076,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63074\/revisions\/63076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}