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Local heroines: Champions on home soil
Ashleigh Barty became the first home champion in 44 years when she claimed her third Grand Slam trophy at the 2022 Australian Open - her fourth title on home soil. Take a look back at the last 30 players to win WTA singles titles in their own countries.
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Ashleigh Barty claimed her third major title at the 2022 Australian Open without dropping a set, becoming the first home women's champion at the tournament since Chris O'Neil in 1978.
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For the third year running, World No.1 Ashleigh Barty captured a January title in Australia, reclaiming the 2022 Adelaide 500 title for a second time to lift her 23rd WTA singles trophy.
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Two weeks after winning her first WTA title in Palermo on Italian clay, Danielle Collins backed it up by capturing her second on the American hard courts of San Jose - extending her winning streak to 10 in the process.
Photo by Larry Hinh/Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic
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Barbora Krejcikova became the sixth home champion in Prague since the inaugural 1992 edition after winning the tournament's third all-Czech final over Tereza Martincova.
Photo by Livesport Prague Open
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The inaugural Bad Homburg Open in 2021 concluded with German No.1 Angelique Kerber claiming her 13th career title, and her third on home soil alongside back-to-back Stuttgart triumphs in 2015 and 2016.
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In her third Nottingham final, Johanna Konta lifted the trophy for the first time in 2021, becoming the first British woman to win a title on home soil since Sue Barker at Brighton 1981.
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At Bogota 2021, 19-year-old Maria Camila Osorio Serrano followed in the footsteps of Fabiola Zuluaga and Mariana Duque-Mariño to become the third Colombian champion in the tournament's 23-year history.
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Daria Kasatkina became the first player to win both Russian WTA 500 events after capturing St. Petersburg 2021, taking the 30th all-Russian WTA final after Margarita Gasparyan retired due to injury.
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Competing for the first time since the 2020 Tour shutdown, Barty picked up where she left off with her second title on Australian soil at the 2021 Yarra Valley Classic, defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in the final.
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The inaugural edition of Lexington in 2020 featured three American semifinalists - and it was Jennifer Brady who eventually became a champion on home soil, defeating Jil Teichmann to claim her maiden title.
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After losing two Sydney finals in 2018-19, a third Australian final at Adelaide 2020 saw Ashleigh Barty defeat Dayana Yastremska to win in front of her home crowd for the first time.
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Having had no home champions since 1998, Japan got two in as many weeks in September 2019, with Naomi Osaka picking up her first home title in Osaka, the city of her birth, without dropping a set.
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In the second all-Japanese WTA final in the Open Era, Nao Hibino defeated Misaki Doi to win the 2019 Hiroshima title - the first Japanese winner on home soil since Ai Sugiyama won Tokyo 1998.
Photo by Japan Women's Open
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Madison Keys' affinity for home continued in her fourth straight final on US soil at Cincinnati 2019, with the American beating Svetlana Kuznetsova to pick up her fifth career title.
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Bianca Andreescu became the first Canadian to win the Rogers Cup in 50 years at Toronto 2019, starting by winning four consecutive three-setters and taking the final after Serena Williams was forced to retire.
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The USA's Jessica Pegula captured her maiden title at Washington 2019, beating Camila Giorgi in the final.
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The inaugural Baltic Open in Jurmala, Latvia in 2019 ended with a home champion as Anastasija Sevastova defeated Katarzyna Kawa in the final.
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All four of Madison Keys' finals between 2017-19 came at home in the USA, and she picked up her fourth career title - and first on clay - at Charleston 2019.
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Having been runner-up in 2017 to Julia Goerges, Russia's Daria Kasatkina got her hands on the Moscow trophy in 2018 after a comeback win over Ons Jabeur in the final.
Photo by Kremlin Cup
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China's Wang Qiang went 19-4 on home soil in 2018, collecting her second career title in Guangzhou without losing more than four games in any set.
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Wang Qiang lifted her first trophy in Nanchang in 2018, defeating Zheng Saisai in the third all-Chinese WTA final in history.
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In its six editions, Prague has seen three home champions, with Petra Kvitova the most recent in 2018 after her final defeat of Mihaela Buzarnescu.
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Four of Sloane Stephens' seven titles to date have come at home in the USA, with Miami 2018 - where she beat Jelena Ostapenko in the final - the most recent.
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Both of Zhang Shuai's WTA titles have come in Guangzhou, with the Chinese player picking up her second trophy there in 2018 after beating Aleksandra Krunic in the final.
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Sloane Stephens' defeat of Madison Keys in the 2017 US Open final is the most recent Grand Slam final between compatriots.
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Madison Keys picked up her third career title at Stanford 2017, beating CoCo Vandeweghe in an all-American final.
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Both of Peng Shuai's WTA titles have come on home soil, with the Chinese player capturing her second in Nanchang in 2017 with victory over Nao Hibino in the final.
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Irina-Camelia Begu ensured a third Romanian winner in four years in Bucharest in 2017 after beating Julia Goerges to seize her fourth career title.
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German wildcard Laura Siegemund put together a captivating fairytale run in Stuttgart in 2017, defeating three seeds to lift her maiden title at home.
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