Ashleigh Barty says her favorite surface in tennis is grass. She might have to change that after beating Czech teen Marketa Vondrousova 6-1 6-3 to become the first Australian to win the clay-court ...

Five years after taking an 18-month break from competitive tennis to play — of all things — cricket, 23-year-old Ashleigh Barty has reached the mountaintop, easily defeating Marketa Vondrousova to win ...

ADELAIDE, Australia — French Open final opponents Ashleigh Barty and Marketa Vondrousova delivered the same outcome at the Adelaide International on Thursday: A dominating victory for the No. 1 player ...

The 23-year-old, who had never been past the second round in Paris before this year, strolled to a 6-1, 6-3 success on Philippe-Chatrier. The Australian, seeded eighth in the tournament, needed just ...

PARIS (AP) - Ash Barty won 17 of the initial 18 points in her French Open semifinal against 17-year-old Amanda Anisimova to lead 5-0 after 12 minutes - and yet somehow lost that set. Barty then lost ...

June 8 (Reuters) - Key statistics from Australian Ashleigh Barty's 6-1 6-3 victory over Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova in the French Open final on Saturday (prefix number denotes seeding): ...

Last year, she became the first unseeded player in the Open era to win the event’s women’s singles title. A celebration ensued. By Cindy Shmerler Ons Jabeur, the Tunisian player who is popular among ...

Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova will face Ashleigh Barty in Saturday’s French Open final with a maiden grand slam title on the line for either player. The 19-year-old Vondrousova became the first ...

PARIS — Ash Barty knew she needed a break from tennis, from the pressure and expectations, from the week-in, week-out grind. So she stepped away in 2014 and wound up trying her hand at cricket, ...