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Ashleigh Barty sets up clash of former French Open champions with Madrid Open win – Wide World of Sports
Early blockbuster against fellow major winner
Ashleigh Barty and Iga Swiatek, the two most recent champions of the French Open, will meet in the last 16 of the Madrid Open.
They won their second-round matches on Saturday to set up the first-time meeting.
“(It’s) a match that I look forward to,” Barty said about Monday’s meeting with Swiatek. “I’ve hit with her once in Melbourne a few months ago. She’s got a seriously impressive game.
“It’s a challenge that we go into with a really clean slate, a little bit of a period of trying to figure each…
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