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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Another week on the 2019 tennis circuit, another different champion.
April is just about here, and no man or woman has yet managed to win more than one singles title on the main circuit this season.
“That’s amazing, isn’t it?” Ashleigh Barty said after keeping the streak alive on Saturday with a 7-6 (1), 6-3 victory against Karolina Pliskova in the Miami Open final.
But though Barty, an Australian, was the 14th WTA champion in 14 events, her winning a title of this magnitude bore no resemblance to a fluke.