Barty will look to add winning the WTA Finals to her already long list of accomplishments in 2019. The top seed dropped serve twice in the second set but, as champions do, broke back each time.The title match was all over after one hour and 27 and minutes as Barty not only joined Williams and her idol Goolagong Cawley on the honour roll but also fellow all-time greats Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Justine Henin and Martina Hingis.A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. Surely one of the most versatile players on the tour, Barty opened her maiden WTA Finals campaign with a battling 5-7 6-1 6-2 win against Bencic. She will probably hit fewer deep backhand slices than she did against Pliskova and she should really move forward to finish points at the net when she can. Take a bow, That was a great game with both players at their best. It’s difficult to forget the absolutely bizarre sight of her failing to find the court for an hour against Bertens in her second match and collapsing from a set and break lead. There she faced world #2 Karolina Pliskova, who has enjoyed another solid year. Head To Head. Winning the WTA Finals in Singapore last season remains the biggest title of her career.After holding serve to lead 6-5 in the first set against Svitolina, Bencic received a medical timeout to have treatment during the changeover. The head to head is 5-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.. I have nothing to lose. Two more top-10 women -- Elina Svitolina and Kiki Bertens -- will miss the U.S. Open, joining No. Svitolina won their only meeting in 2019 7-6(8) 5-7 6-4 at Indian Wells in March, a battle that lasted 3 hours 12 minutes. Records, stats best players everything in one place. "This has been a standout season for Barty, who won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open and attained top ranking for the first time. Elina Svitolina vs Ashleigh Barty all matches, with stats on their H2H rivalry. Elina Svitolina vs Ashleigh Barty h2h tennis stats & betting tips. Enter any two player's names in the search boxes at the top of this page for H2H tennis stats. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Bencic claimed the court hindered movement, although Svitolina appears to enjoy the surface. As Svitolina ground out the long rallies, Barty patiently attacked with her forehand. Despite how dramatically her life has changed this year, Barty has been consistent throughout this year and her form hasn’t dipped.Here is Barty’s speech after her milestone win. I'm really disappointed about how my body failed me. The Ukrainian will also have the added motivation of this match marking her last chance to win a title in 2019 and keep alive her seven-year streak of winning a WTA title every season. She is set to become the first Australian woman to end the year as world #1 and also won the French Open in June.

Her sliced backhand is also one of the best in the women’s game.But for all her quality, Barty may be approaching this final with some trepidation, having lost all five of her previous meetings with Svitolina, who has been in superb form so far in Shenzhen. Enter any two player's names in the search boxes at the top of this page for H2H tennis stats. Barty is Australia's first female year-end No. The Australian can call upon unusual variety and possesses superb touch, particularly at the net. Barty, like Svitolina, dropped the opening set of her semifinal before beating second-ranked "I felt like the whole match was an incredibly high level," Barty said. Now that Barty is number one and Roland Garros champion, we’ll see if she can close the rest.Svitolina arrives into the final having used these slow courts to her advantage throughout the week, grinding down her opponents and forcing them to hit through her immense defence. Go out there with renewed purpose. Prediction and head to head Ashleigh Barty vs. Elina Svitolina. That was a brilliant set of tennis.A costly netted forehand from Svitolina on the break point, but Barty earnt that hold with some great serving when needed. Barty upstaged Svitolina 6-4 6-3 in the Shenzhen finale to become the first world No.1 to win the WTA Finals series since Serena Williams five years ago and the first Australian since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1976.The 23-year-old’s latest triumph capped a dream regular season in which Barty also landed her maiden grand slam crown at the French Open in June and became the first Australian since Lleyton Hewitt in 2002 to secure the year-end top ranking.No Australian woman has achieved the feat since rankings were introduced in 1975.“It’s been the most incredible year for me,” Barty said after being formally presented with the year-end world No.1 trophy.“But first and foremost congratulations to Elina and your team, you’ve had an exceptional year.“You’re one of the toughest competitors on the tour and I know we’ll have many, many more battles in the future.”Her history-making win also completed the perfect preparation for next week’s Fed Cup final against France in Perth, where Barty will bid to lead Australia to glory for the first time since 1974.While most of her rivals spent the week complaining of the notoriously soft and slow purple court, Barty went quietly about her business, dropping serve just four times in her four wins over world No.2 Karolina Pliskova, world No.6 Petra Kvitova, world No.7 Belinda Bencic and now the eighth-ranked Svitolina.Barty finished the regular season with a WTA-best 12 wins over top-10 opponents as well as a tour-leading four titles from six finals, her latest success coming indoors having already picked up trophies on clay, grass and hard courts in 2019.Throw in an equal-tour-high 56 wins from 68 matches and Barty is nothing less than a worthy year-end world No.1.Barty had lost all five of her previous encounters with Svitolina, who was riding a 10-match winning streak at the WTA Finals after sweeping to last year’s title undefeated.She dropped only five points in her first four service games before snaring the opening set with a booming forehand return winner down the line.