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Barty turned into the fourteenth WTA player since the commencement of PC rankings in 1975 to accomplish the award. 


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The Women's Tennis Association on Monday reported that Ashleigh Barty and Barbora Strycova have earned the 2019 WTA Year-End World No.1 Singles and Doubles Rankings introduced by Dubai Duty Free, a Press discharge expressed. 

Australia's Barty has secured the year-end WTA singles No.1 positioning without precedent for her profession, turning into the fourteenth WTA player since the initiation of PC rankings in 1975 to accomplish the award. 

Strycova has earned this present season's year-end No.1 duplicates positioning additionally just because, and 2019 imprints the second year straight a player from the Czech Republic has accomplished the respect, after Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova finished 2018 as the co-positioned No.1 group. 

"For the benefit of Dubai Duty Free, I'd like to offer our congrats to Ashleigh Barty and Barbora Strycova on accomplishing the WTA Year-End World No.1 singles and duplicates rankings without precedent for their vocations," said Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, Dubai Duty Free. "Ashleigh and Barbora have composed their names into the history books in 2019 after their introduction Grand Slam titles at Roland Garros and Wimbledon individually, which was only one of many astounding accomplishments this season, and I anticipate inviting them to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships one year from now in February." 

Barty turned into the 27th player to arrive at the WTA World No.1 positioning on 25th June 2019 and including her triumphant week at the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen, has amassed 15 weeks in the top spot. Her rising to the World No.1 positioning over the late spring likewise denoted the first run through an Australian lady had held the situation since Evonne Goolagong Cawley arrived at this noteworthy achievement on April 26, 1976. 

"To have the option to consider myself the Year-End World No.1 singles player is perhaps the proudest snapshot of my profession," said Barty. "This accomplishment is genuinely a collaboration, and I would not be getting this respect or had the best period of my existence without the individuals around me who have upheld me on this unimaginable adventure." 

Barty has delighted in a champion season on the WTA Tour, which saw her lift her vocation first WTA Premier Mandatory title at the Miami Open exhibited by Itaú, her lady Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, and in this way turned into the principal player to fit the bill for the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen, where she lifted the trophy in the wake of vanquishing reigning boss Elina Svitolina in the last. 

Strycova in the interim additionally lifted her lady Grand Slam title this year, joining forces with Hsieh Su-Wei to triumph at Wimbledon. The group likewise lifted the trophy at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, Mutua Madrid Open and the Nature Valley Classic (Birmingham), and finished off their season with a next in line finish at the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen. She rose to the World No.1 duplicates positioning on Monday July 15, 2019, turning into the seventh lady speaking to the Czech Republic to accomplish the No.1 pairs positioning, and is the 43rd lady by and large to arrive at the top spot in copies. 

"This is a fantastic minute in my vocation, and I'd like to express gratitude toward Hsieh Su-Wei who has been my accomplice for a lot of this season and helped me arrive at this objective," said Strycova. "It's been a fabulous year for me and to complete the year as the top duplicates player is an astonishing inclination." 

"Ashleigh and Barbora have both appreciated mind blowing seasons and we are enchanted to see them get their WTA Year-End World No.1 trophies," said Micky Lawler, WTA President. "I might likewise want to offer my continuous gratitude to Dubai Duty Free for their relationship with the WTA Year-End No.1 grants just as their proceeded with help for ladies' tennis." 

Both Barty and Strycova were given their particular WTA Year-End World No.1 trophies at the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen by Ramesh Cidambi, Chief Operating Officer of Dubai Duty Free and Salah Tahlak, Executive Vice President-Corporate Services of Dubai Duty Free.

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