- Analysis: the biggest loot in history
With her victory in the fight for the title in the WTA Finals , against the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6-4 and 6-3, the Australian Ashleigh Barty won a historical check in this sport: 4.42 million dollars (about 3.95 million of euros).
"A goal of mine this year was to enter the top 10 'and almost become a top 10 player with consistency in all areas. But since then everything has been pretty fast. No kidding," said the new Master, and the first Australian to win this title since 1976, when Evonne Goolagong Cawley did it for the second time (1974), and fifth to get it as a debutant.
Barty did joke about what he was going to do with that fabulous check. " I am doing a lot of online shopping in Shenzhen ," he told reporters. "Today was a very special day for the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) at home. I was doing some shopping online because I know they need things for dogs and cats and everything in the RSPCA shelter. A little to give them something back when I return home in Australia, "he said.
The title won in Shenzheh, the seventh of his career and most important since Roland Garros this year, prepares Barty for the conquest of a new objective: the Federation Cup, whose final will be played by Australia against France on November 9 and 10 in Perth (Australia).
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