LONDON: Newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Ashleigh Barty says if she could be “half the person” her fellow indigenous Australian and two-time Wimbledon victor Evonne Goolagong Cawley is she would be “very happy.”
Barty overcame a few wobbles — including being broken when serving for the match in the second set — to beat Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3 and spark a feeling she said she had never experienced on a tennis court before.
The 25-year-old’s victory is extra special to her as it came on the 50th anniversary of her “friend and mentor” Cawley’s first win at the All England Club.
“The stars aligned for me over the past fortnight,” said Barty.
“That it happened to fall on the 50th anniversary of Evonne’s first title here is absolutely incredible.”
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