CINCINNATI, United States — World number one Ashleigh
Barty reached her sixth final of the season on Saturday as the Australian
defeated Angelique Kerber 6-2, 7-5 at the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters.
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The top-seeded Aussie, who has led the ranking table for the
past 82 weeks, needed an hour and a quarter to move into Sunday's title match,
surpassing her semi-final showing from 2019.
Barty will play for the trophy on Sunday against the winner
of a later match between Swiss wild card Jil Teichmann — who beat good friend
and Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic in the quarter-finals — and Czech
fifth seed Karolina Pliskova, more than a year and a half without a title.
Against Kerber, Barty increased her lead in the series
between multiple Grand Slam winners to 4-2 as she duplicated a Wimbledon
semi-final victory from last month.
Barty produced a dozen aces as she broke Kerber five times.
Her 39 match wins this year nudge her one ahead of Aryna Sabalenka on the WTA
list.
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