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Wimbledon: Ashleigh Barty's wobbly win
Updated On: 30 June, 2021 07:31 AM IST | London | AFP
World No. 1 stutters before rallying to beat Suarez Navarro 6-1, 6-7, 6-1 in Rd 1
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Ashleigh Barty returns to Carla Suarez Navarro during their first-round match at Wimbledon in London yesterday. Pic/AFP
Ashleigh Barty’s bid to win Wimbledon, half a century after fellow indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley won her first singles title, got off to a winning start on Tuesday with a 6-1, 6-7, 6-1 victory over Carla Suarez Navarro.
Barty, 25, top seed has never been beyond the fourth round at Wimbledon but two breaks of serve in the first set and then one at 4-4 in the second seemed to have set her up with a routine victory. However, with errors creeping into Barty’s game Spaniard Suarez Navarro broke back and the set went into a tie-break.
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