The Australian Ashleigh Barty and the kazaja Elena Rybakina, first and seventh favorites, will settle the Adelaide International final tennis, after beating the Polish Iga Swiatek and the Japanese Misaki Doi respectively in the semifinals.
Barty, world number 1, in a highly anticipated match, as the last two winners of the tournament were measured, He beat a Swiatek more easily than expected, fifth favorite and ninth in the WTA ranking, defending the title, by a clear 6-3 and 6-4, In barely an hour and a half of play, it was enough for the local player three service breaks (two in the first set and one in the second), and not yielding her own, to beat a Swiatek that did not find her rhythm, perhaps noticing the exhaustion from the tough quarter-final match against Belarusian Victoria Azarenka who left almost two hours later.
Barty’s rival, who already won this tournament in 2020, is Rybakina, fourteenth in the world, who imposed something more adjusted to the Japanese Doi (n.105), by 6-4 and 6-3, in one hour and twenty-five minutes. Rybakina did not start well, as he gave up his serve in the second game, which allowed Doi to get a favorable 2-0, but he reacted quickly, with breaks in the third and ninth that gave him the first set.
In the second set there was equality, with each player keeping her serve until the seventh game, when the Kazakh took her rival, to close the match with a new break in the ninth. Barty and Rybakina They have already met in 2020 at the Australian Open, with the victory of the Australian (6-3, 6-2), while in the duel scheduled in February of that year in Doha, the Kazakh did not appear due to physical discomfort.