
Ashleigh Barty thumps the defending champion Victoria Azarenka 6-0 6-2 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday after playing a superlative match to face off with Barbora Krejcikova in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes. Her best result in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Barty added to her prize money $ 23,620 after winning this match. She has won already $ 47,820 after this win. If she wins the next match, Barty will add $ 52,430 to her earnings to get in total $ 100,250 in total.
Highlights Ashleigh Barty vs. Victoria Azarenka Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ashleigh scored 61 points vs. the Belarussian’s 40.
Barty
The Australian served exceptionally well to win 87% of the points (27/31) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 30% points (6/20) on her second serve. The Australian didn’t lose the focus when converting 56% of the break points that she conquered (5/9).
Azarenka
On the other side, Azarenka wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Barty and Azarenka is 3-1 for Ashleigh.
Draw and next match H2H: Ashleigh Barty vs. Barbora Krejcikova – stats
Barty will compete against Krejcikova in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Ashleigh Barty and Barbora Krejcikova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Barty (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Barty won 7-5 6-3 in the 4th round in London back in July 2021.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much of a fight in this set as the Australian conceded no games to Victoria before winning the set 6-0.
Ashleigh converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (2-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 5th game (4-0 30-40). On the other side, Ashleigh didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 40 points. Ashleigh conquered the set after winning 12 points more than the Belarussian (26-14). The Australian dropped 7 points on serve (13-7). On the losing side, Azarenka conceded 13 points on serve (7-13).
Barty had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Victoria Azarenka in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Ashleigh improved her lead after breaking Victoria in the 3rd (3-0) game before winning the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of this set was when Barty won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to convert the game count from 0-0 to 4-0.
They played 60 points. The Australian conquered the set after winning 10 points more than Victoria (35-25). The Australian conceded 10 points on serve (20-10). on the other side of the court, the Belarussian conceded 15 points on serve (15-15).
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Angelique KerberKerber – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (4-6 6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-0 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-1 6-75 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-4 7-6(5)) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-4) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-0) – H2H details and stats





