Wimbledon is set to crown a new single’s winner on Saturday as World No 1 Ashleigh Barty locks horns with Czech star Karolina Pliskova. Barty will be eyeing to win her first Wimbledon title on the 50th anniversary of fellow indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s maiden crown. However, Pliskova, who knocked out 2019 US Open Champion Aryna Sabalenka, would play to win her first single’s Grand Slam title. 

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Here is a look at Ashleigh Barty and  Karolina Pliskova’s paths to the Wimbledon women’s singles final:

Ashleigh Barty

1st rd: bt Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 6-1, 6-7 (1/7), 6-1

2nd rd: bt Anna Blinkova (RUS) 6-4, 6-3

3rd rd: bt Katerina Siniakova (CZE) 6-3, 7-5

4th rd: bt Barbora Krejcikova (CZE x14) 7-5, 6-3

QF: bt Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 6-1, 6-3

SF: bt Angelique Kerber (GER x25) 6-3, 7-6 (7/3)

Karolina Pliskova

1st rd: bt Tamara Zidansek (SLO) 7-5, 6-4

2nd rd: bt Donna Vekic (CRO) 6-2, 6-2

3rd rd: bt Tereza Martincova (CZE) 6-3, 6-3

4th rd: bt Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) 6-2, 6-3

QF: bt Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 6-2, 6-2

SF: bt Aryna Sabalenka (BLR x2) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4

Pliskova is driven more by proving to her “brutal critics” she was right in sticking to her style of play rather than alter it radically as the former world number one dropped out of the top 10.

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Whatever happens on Saturday a return to the top 10 beckons for the 29-year-old world number 13 but for the keen angler the catch of the day would be her first Grand Slam title.

To do so she must overcome a world number one who produced her best performance yet of the fortnight in beating 2018 champion Angelique Kerber in the semi-finals.

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Barty also has a firm hold on their head-to-head meetings leading Pliskova 4-2 (1-0 to Barty on grass) including their most recent meeting in Stuttgart on clay this year.

Barty’s movement around the court has been a feature of her campaign which she admits seemed a remote possibility when she retired from her second-round match at the French Open with a left hip injury.