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Patna : Top seed Ashleigh Barty, 25, Australia, and 5th seed Aryna Sabalenka, 23, Belarus, will clash in Mutua Madrid Open women’s singles final at Madrid, Spain, on May 8, 2021, both winning their respective semi-finals matches comfortably.
World No 1 Barty defeated World No 62 Paula Badosa, 23, Spain, in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 in first semi-finals on May 6, 2021, night, winning 4 games in a row. The Australian won 3 break points during the match to 1 by Badosa. Barty fired 6 Aces in the match to 4 by Badosa. The Spainiard committed 4 double faults to 2 by the Australian. Barty, in all, won 66 points during the match to 52 by Badosa.
World No 7 Sabalenka beat World No 41 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 29, Russia, in straight sets 6-2, 6-3 in second semi-finals in on May 7, 2021. Sabalenka won 4 break points during the match to 1 by Pavlyuchenkova. The Belarusian also won 7 games in a row in the match to 3 by the Russian. Sabalenka also fired 4 Aces during the match. The Belarusian, in all, won 56 points in the match to 37 by the Russian.