MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest at the Australian Open on Saturday (all times local):
8:20 p.m.
Ash Barty has won the first set in the Australian Open final against Danielle Collins and is potentially one more set away from ending a 44-year drought for Australian women at their home Grand Slam.
Top-ranked Barty saved a break point in the fifth game and then broke the American's serve on the way to taking the set 6-3 in 32 minutes. The No. 27-seeded Collins is playing in her first major final.
Barty won Wimbledon last year and the French Open in 2019. She's aiming to be the first Australian woman since Chris O'Neil in 1978 to win the Australian singles title.