Ash Barty wins Wimbledon title to become Australia’s first women's singles champion in 41 years

The Ngarigo woman beat Karolina Pliskova in three tense sets to become Australia's first women's Wimbledon singles champion since her mentor and idol Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980.

Ash Barty celebrates her Wimbledon triumph with the Venus Rosewater Dish Source: Getty Images

Ash Barty has won her first Wimbledon crown, beating Karolina Pliskova in a nerve-shredding final to become the first Australian to win the women's singles title for 41 years.

Just like her idol and mentor Evonne Goolagong Cawley half a century earlier, Barty, another Indigenous Australian, annexed the Venus Rosewater Dish but she needed real steel to go with the style on Saturday to win 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3 on Centre Court.

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