Ashleigh Barty Ashleigh Jacinta Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Assoc ...

defeated Markéta Vondroušová in the final, 6–1, 6–3 to win the women's singles tennis title at the

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. It was her first

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singles title, making her the first Australian to win a

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singles title since

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and the first to win any major singles title since

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at the 2011 US Open. Simona Halep was the defending champion, but lost to

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in the quarterfinals. Anisimova was the first tennis player born in the 21st century to reach the quarterfinals and semifinals of a major.

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retained the world No. 1 singles ranking after

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lost in the third round.

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, Kiki Bertens and

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were also in contention for the top ranking. Osaka's streak of 16 consecutive wins at the majors was broken when she lost to

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in the third round. For the first time since the 1978 Australian Open, none of the four semifinalists had previously reached a major singles final. Of the four, Johanna Konta was the only one who had previously reached a semifinal. Of Konta's seven appearances in the main draw of the French Open, this was the only edition where she progressed beyond the first round. This marked the final major main draw appearance of former world No. 4 and 2016 WTA Finals champion

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; she was defeated by

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in the first round. It was the first French Open main draw appearance of future world No. 1 and four-time champion

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, who reached the fourth round and was defeated by Halep. It was also the first major appearance of future

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champion

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, who lost to Siniaková in the first round.

Seeds

Seeding per WTA rankings.

Qualifying

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Championship match ratings

1.030 million on

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, in the USA

Championship match statistics

References

External links

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at the

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