Published: September 02, 2018
- Karolina Pliskova overcomes Australian No 1 6-4, 6-4
- Run ensures 22-year-old career-high ranking of No 15
Ashleigh Barty’s US Open campaign is over, with Australia’s biggest women’s singles hope falling to former finalist Karolina Pliskova in the fourth round. The eighth-seeded Czech showed her class in a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Barty despite being under pressure for much of the match on Sunday.
Barty won just about everywhere but on the scoreboard, striking 29 winners to Pliskova’s 16, out-aceing the Czech six to four and offering up only two break points on serve. Tellingly though, Barty was unable to capitalise on any of eight break-point chances, while Pliskova converted both her only two – one in each set, in the one-hour and 24-minute triumph.
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