Ash Barty has become Australia's first Wimbledon champion in four decades after winning the ladies final in a three-set thriller against Czech Karolína Plíšková. Following an easy first set, the 25-year-old Queensland star was made to fight in the next set for the coveted title. She won the tournament 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, in the first three-set final in nine years. Ms Barty is the first Australian woman to lift the Venus Rosewater dish since her mentor and Indigenous tennis star Evonne Goolagong Cawley, in 1980.