Though there were no major events on the WTA Tour last week, the women's rankings still saw a shakeup with ranking points from last year's Adelaide 500 event dropped as it was held 12 months ago.
Russia's Daniil Medvedev maintains second irrespective of his result against Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open men's final.
Barty is the first Australian woman in the 44 years since the last homegrown champion, Chris O'Neil, held an Australian Open singles trophy.
Barty goes into Saturday's final on a 10-match winning streak and having lost just 21 games in six matches without dropping a set. She has also won 81 of her past 82 service games.
The World No.1 defeated her American opponent 6-1, 6-3 in a lop-sided final that lasted just 1 hour and 2 minutes.
The top-ranked Australian moved into the semifinals in front of her home crowd with a 6-2, 6-0 win over USA's World No. 21
In hot pursuit of her first Grand Slam at home, the Australian flayed the World No. 60 from USA in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.
Looking to become Australia's first women's champion in 44 years at Melbourne Park, Barty has lost just eight games in her three matches this year.
Barty extended her streak of service holds to 48 games and moved into the third round at Melbourne Park for the sixth consecutive year by beating 142nd-ranked qualifier Lucia Bronzetti 6-1, 6-1 in under an hour Tuesday in Rod Laver Arena.
Third-seeded Alexander Zverev plays Australian John Millman in a night match.
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Medvedev is seeded second, followed by Alexander Zverev at No. 3, Stefanos Tsitsipas at No. 4 and Andrey Rublev at No. 5 in men's singles draw.
The two-time Grand Slam winner won the Adelaide International defeating Elena Rybakina 6-3, 6-2 in the final.
In a clash between the tournament's two previous winners, No 1 seed Barty beat No 5 seed Swiatek 6-2, 6-4 in 1 hour and 27 minutes to keep alive her hopes of regaining the title she claimed in 2020.
Rogers rallied from down 5-2 in the third set to upset Barty 6-2, 1-6, 7-5 (5) on Saturday night for the biggest win of the 28-year-old's career.
World No.1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia, extended her winning streak to six with a 6-1, 7-6(7) defeat of Vera Zvonareva of Russia in the first round of the US Open in one hour and 28 minutes.
Barty will face two-time Cincinnati finalist Angelique Kerber, who won her quarterfinal when Petra Kvitova retired during the second set because of a stomach problem.
The top-ranked Barty’s second-round match in the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday was postponed after two rain delays totaling five hours pushed back the schedule in the second full day of play.
The Aussie fell in a tough first-round loss at the Tokyo Olympic Games against Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo but walked away from her Olympic debut with a bronze in mixed doubles.
Barty completed a 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 win at the All England Club on Saturday, but it was just past 1 a.m. Sunday in Australia when Goolagong Cawley may have woken up the neighbors with their noisy reaction at their home north of Brisbane.
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