Ashleigh Barty is poised to crown her phenomenal season by becoming the first Australian woman to top the year-ending tennis rankings.
Barty will officially regain the world No.1 spot on Monday after Naomi Osaka's fourth-round US Open loss to Belinda Bencic.
Barty will enter the Asian swing with a 376-point lead over Pliskova and with 372 rankings points less to defend. Barty held the top spot for six weeks after clinching her third title of the season in Birmingham the week before Wimbledon, amid a 15-match winning streak highlighted by her grand slam breakthrough in Paris.
"I don't know what I would need to do to get there. I haven't really sat down and done the maths or anything like that," Barty said in New York. As well as her French Open triumph, Barty was a quarter-finalist in Melbourne and reached the fourth round at both Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows.
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