Australia's big title hope Ash Barty floundered in a sea of unforced errors, succumbing 6-2, 6-4 loss to Qiang Wang in one hour and 22 minutes USOpen
Australia's big title hope floundered in a sea of unforced errors, succumbing 6-2, 6-4 loss to Qiang Wang in one hour and 22 minutes on Sunday.World No.18 Wang was the highest-ranked rival Barty had played since the French Open semi-finals two months ago – and she was simply unable to rise to the occasion.
Formerly coached by Australian Davis Cup winner, the late Peter McNamara, Wang was relentless in defence and her counter-punching drove Barty mad.The second seed's numbers told the story, Barty committing 39 unforced errors in 18 games and unable to convert any of nine break-point chances. "I was very focused on court. I just tried to hit aggressive on court and just do my best," Wang said herself making only 14 errors in the match.There was no sign of what was to come when Barty rocketed down an ace to hold her opening service game to love.
But three successive unforced errors handed Wang the first break of the match in the third game, before Barty gifted her opponent the double break with four more baseline blunders in the fifth game.The writing was on the wall when Barty dropped serve for a fourth time, from 40-15 up on this occasion, in the first game of the second set.
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