Ash Barty

But she wants to spend more time with family and work with indigenous Australians. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

I think it's the right time." "It's not a shock to me. I have always been an athlete in the sense of trying different things, but we'll see how we go." "I love sport, I'm a sport nut like a lot of Australians are. Patience is a virtue," she told reporters in Brisbane. "We'll see." It's all right, you can be patient.

Tennis News: Ash Barty's decision to retire at the very top of her game, on her own terms and with absolutely no regrets stunned the world of tennis, ...

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Barty bowed out of tennis as world number one and on the back of winning the Australian Open in January. Having previously played professional cricket and also ...

It's not easy. I mean, it's extremely hard. "It was never about the success, it was just trying to find the best that Ash could be, and it turned out that she's the best there is. "I sort of felt she'd climbed where she needed to get to, and it was going to be a hard slog to keep her involved...so I sort of felt it was coming, and we'd sort of discussed things,” Tyzzer said. "You just need to be the best version of you, and that was really what we were about. "I have always been a home body and this is where I retired, just where I got my energy from,” she said.

Ash Barty called her decision to retire "scary but exciting" and said she no longer had the drive to challenge herself in tennis' top level.

A former junior prodigy, a teenage Barty took a break from the sport following the US Open in 2014 and pursued a professional cricket career. But Swiatek was far from the only one of Barty's peers to comment on the announcement. I sort of felt it was coming and we had sort of discussed things." I get to contribute more on the tennis side with the younger girls, younger boys and throughout the communities, which is exciting for me." She had previously won the French Open in 2019 and Wimbledon, achieving her childhood dream, in 2021. Barty, 25, stunned the tennis world on Wednesday with a six-minute Instagram video in which she said she would be stepping away from the game, effective immediately, to "chase other dreams."

The Australian won 15 titles in her career and was the sport's top player for 121 weeks.

“We will miss you so much, Ash.” I am spent.” The Australian won 15 titles, including the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the French Open and was the sport’s top player for 121 weeks.

Ash Barty shocked the sports world Wednesday by announcing her retirement from professional tennis, despite being the reigning Wimbledon and Australian Open ...

Tennis is obviously the focus and cricket was a bit of fun, but golf for me is a hobby. With her illustrious tennis career now in the rearview, maybe Barty reconsiders that statement? I guess if there was one sport that’s truly in the Barty genes, it’s probably golf, more so than tennis." For more than 20 years he didn’t pick up a club and I always used to muck around in the backyard with whatever old clubs I could find. She slashed her handicap from 10 to 4 and then won the Brookwater Golf & Country Club’s annual women’s club championship. He decided to stay home and ended up giving the game away.