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Patna : Top seed & reigning Wimbledon champion Ashleigh Barty, 25, Australia, beat 9th seed & reigning French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova, 25, Czech Republic, in straight sets in quarter-final on August 20, 2021, night, to reach the semi-finals of Western & Southern Open, a WTa masters 1,000 hardcourt tennis tournament at Cincinati, Ohio, USA.
Barty, the winner of French Open title in 2021 and Wimbledon title in 2021, beat Barbora Krejcikova 6-2, 6-4 in QF. Barty won 4 break points during the match to just 1 by Krejcikova. The Australian won 4 games in row during the match to 3 by the Czech. Barty fired 7 ACes during the match to 2 Krejcikova.
The Australian, in all, won 57 points to 44 by Krejcikova, who had defeated 8th seed Garbine Muguruza, 27, Spain, in Round of 16 in a three-set contest. Muguruza had won French Open title in 2016 and Wimbledon title in 20217.