No. 1 Ashleigh Barty loses at Adelaide International; Coco Gauff into quarterfinals

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Defending champion and No. 1-ranked Ash Barty misplaced within the second spherical of the Adelaide International on Wednesday, eradicated by Danielle Collins 6-3, 6-4.
“The court was exceptionally quick, probably the quickest I’ve ever played in Australia and that took some time to adjust,” stated Barty, who misplaced within the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.
A yr in the past, Barty beat Collins within the semifinals on the Adelaide International en path to the hard-court title. That was a part of a 3-0 head-to-head edge Barty carried into Wednesday’s match.
“I was really familiar with her game after losing to her three times,” stated Collins, an American who’s ranked thirty seventh and can face French Open champion Iga Swiatek subsequent, “so I certainly got some great tennis lessons out of that and have learned from it.”

Barty has stayed at No. 1 within the rankings regardless of not having performed a lot in any respect in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The WTA is utilizing what it calls “frozen rankings,” which counts gamers’ 16 finest event outcomes since March 2019. That permits Barty, for instance, to get credit score for her 2019 title at Roland Garros, and never be penalized for sitting out that occasion final yr.
In different outcomes Wednesday, 16-year-old American Coco Gauff beat sixth-seeded Petra Martic 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals. It was Gauff’s fourth win in a row after two in qualifying and one other within the first spherical.
Gauff faces Shelby Rogers on Thursday within the quarterfinals.
Second-seeded Belinda Bencic superior with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Misaki Doi, Storm Sanders upset seventh-seeded Yulia Putintseva 6-4. 5-7. 6-1, Jil Teichmann beat eighth-seeded Wang Qiang 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, and Anastasija Sevastova defeated Christina McHale 6-4, 6-1.