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‘It was turning into a prickly pear’: Barty scrapes through – The Age
World No.1 Ash Barty hit a flat spot in match against countrywoman Daria Gavrilova, but comes good in the nick of time.
Barty is No.1 in the world and carried herself so. She was a royal in procession, though she would never give herself such airs. Gavrilova was a wildcard, a status that fitted her only in terms of personality, but that set expectations low.
They are friends and sometime teammates, who first clashed as teenagers in a tournament in Traralgon. As Barty explained, in meetings of this kind, rankings go out the window. So does chauvinism, on the court and off. There was no us, no them.
Barty and Gavrilova…
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