It's a little bit of a chess game in a way," Barty, who returned to tennis in 2016 having switched to cricket, told reporters. Barty said it was perhaps her best match ever on clay and former Wimbledon champion Cash was full of praise. "She played a fantastic match," Cash, working as a pundit for Eurosport, said. Barty also made the quarter-finals at the Australian Open and won the Miami title, her biggest to date, this year. "We have approached this clay court season a little bit differently to others," the 23-year-old Queenslander said.

Source: The Star June 06, 2019 15:45 UTC