What time is Ash Barty playing?

Ash Barty’s clockwork domination of the Australian Open and favoritism for the historic title can be broken down to anticipated prize money earnings worth more than $400,000 every hour.

Barty has spent a total of just six hours and six minutes on court – rocketing through her six matches to reach tonight’s Australian Open final.

As it stands, Barty’s fast work equates to an hourly rate of $146,721 – or $2453 per-minute.

Barty will collect a winner’s cheque of $2.875 million if the Aussie ace can overcome American Danielle Collins.

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WHAT: 2022 women’s final

WHERE: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

WHEN: Saturday 29 Jan 2022

TIME: 7:30pm AEDT

If the Aussie right-hander continues her short work, inside her tournament average match time of 61 minutes, it will be an overall tournament shift for Barty that equates to $404,929 per hour – or $6748 per minute of tennis in Melbourne.

Even if Barty falls short of her dream, she will still pocket a runners-up cheque of $1.575 million.

Barty has won a total of $21.6 million in prize money throughout her career.

The TAB have installed Barty as the short-priced $1.18 favourite to beat Collins.

The world No.1 is the shortest-priced favourite to win the women’s side of the Australian Open draw since Serena Williams was upset by Angelique Kerber in 2016.

“TAB customers a very parochial when it comes to backing Aussies especially on the big stage, but they’ve taken it to a new level with Ash,” the TAB’s Rohan Welsh said.

“She has been far and away the most popular choice as winner with TAB punters since opening at $8 last year.

“Those who snapped that up should feel pretty good right about now because she tightened into $3.75 before the tournament kicked off and has been getting shorter ever since.”

Originally published as What time is Ash Barty playing? Australian Open women’s final