What time is Ash Barty's Australian Open final and who is she playing?

Ash Barty is set to become the first Aussie to play in the Australian Open women's singles final in more than 40 years.

Here's everything you need to know ahead of her history-making match.

The match is set to get underway at 7:30pm AEDT on Saturday night, which is 6:30pm in Queensland, 6pm in the Northern Territory, 7pm in Adelaide, and 4:30pm in Perth.

Channel Nine will broadcast the match, which will be followed by the all-Australian men's doubles final that will see Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis face Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell.

You can follow all the action with ABC Sport on our live blog.

The player that stands in the way of Barty creating history on Australian soil is 27th seed American Danielle Collins.

The 28-year-old from Florida is playing in her first grand slam final, having reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 2019.

Collins appears to have an affinity with Melbourne Park because her best results in the other majors have been a quarterfinal finish at Wimbledon, a third-round exit in the US Open, and a second-round exit at Roland Garros.

On her way to the final, Collins has dropped just two sets and seen off seventh seed Iga Świątek comfortably in the quarters, winning 6-4, 6-1.

A two-time college champion, the American has only won two WTA singles titles in a decade on the professional tour. However, both those came last year — in Palermo, Italy, and San Jose, USA.

She also beat Barty last year in Adelaide, in the lead-up to the Australian Open.

That's her only singles victory over the Aussie. But she also pushed Barty to a third-set tiebreak in the semis in Adelaide the previous year.

Barty's other two victories came on clay on her road to the French Open title in 2019.

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