Ashleigh Barty is poised to crown her phenomenal season by becoming the first Australian woman to ever top the year-ending tennis rankings
*** If Elina Svitolina wins the US Open, she will reach 6252 pts
That leaves the Japan's reigning Australian Open champion with less than no hope of ending the season as number one for a second straight year. Tennis Australia tweet: Ten second timelapse Watch how local Darwin Indigenous artist Shaun Lee 'Hafleg' and portrait artist Jesse Bell created the iconic mural of Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Ash Barty #NITC19 #IndigenousTennis
Barty said"it would be incredible" to join Lleyton Hewitt as only the second Aussie to enjoy the year-end top status since women's rankings were introduced in 1975 and men's in 1973.
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