32 Facts About Ashleigh Barty

Late in the 2014 season, Ashleigh Barty decided to take an indefinite break from tennis, playing cricket instead.

Besides tennis, Ashleigh Barty played netball as a child, but decided to focus on tennis because she "thought netball was a girls' game" and because her sisters were better than her at that sport.

Joyce remarked that he did not typically train children as young as Ashleigh Barty, but made an exception because of her excellent hand-eye coordination and high level of focus.

Later in the year, Ashleigh Barty received wildcards into the main draws of the French Open and Wimbledon, but lost her opening-round matches to Petra Kvitova and Roberta Vinci, respectively, both of whom were seeded.

Besides her first WTA main-draw appearances, Ashleigh Barty had a break-out year on the ITF Circuit.

In 2013, Ashleigh Barty began playing primarily at the WTA Tour level.

In doubles, Ashleigh Barty partnered with Dellacqua in eight WTA Tour-level events during the 2013 season, including all four Grand Slam tournaments.

Western Suburbs ultimately won the league's grand final, with Ashleigh Barty ending up the team's top scorer in the match after hitting 37 from 39 balls.

At the start of the 2017 season, Ashleigh Barty picked up her first career wins at the Australian Open, reaching the third round.

Later in the year, Ashleigh Barty produced her best result of the season by reaching her first Premier 5 final at the Wuhan Open.

Back on her favourite surface, Ashleigh Barty won the Nottingham Open on grass for her second career WTA title.

At the start of the summer hardcourt season, Ashleigh Barty did well at the Premier 5 events, making it to the semifinals at the Canadian Open and the third round at the Cincinnati Open.

At the US Open, Ashleigh Barty was the 18th seed and reached the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, where she was defeated by Karolina Pliskova.

Towards the end of the season, Ashleigh Barty attempted to defend her previous year's finals appearance at the Wuhan Open.

In 2017, Ashleigh Barty reunited with Dellacqua as her regular doubles partner, and reached the quarterfinals or better at three out of four Grand Slam tournaments during the season.

Individually, Ashleigh Barty established a new career-high doubles world ranking of No 11 towards end of the season.

Later in the season, Ashleigh Barty reunited with Vandeweghe and won her first career Grand Slam title at the US Open.

At her next tournament, Ashleigh Barty made her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open, defeating Maria Sharapova before again losing to Kvitova, becoming the first Australian to make the quarterfinals at the event since Jelena Dokic in 2009.

Nevertheless, Ashleigh Barty became the first Australian woman to reach the semifinals since Wendy Turnbull in 1984 and picked up her first top ten win at a major.

At the Summer Olympics women's singles tournament, Ashleigh Barty lost in the first round to Sara Sorribes Tormo in straight sets.

At the US Open, Ashleigh Barty was the favourite to take the title, but was defeated by Shelby Rogers in the third round.

Nevertheless, Ashleigh Barty achieved the year-end world No 1 ranking for the third year in a row, matching the feat of Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams, and received the WTA Player of the Year award for the second time.

At the Australian Open, Ashleigh Barty reached the final losing only one service game and defeated Danielle Collins to become the first Australian woman since Chris O'Neil in 1978 to win the Australian Open.

At the 2020 Olympics, Ashleigh Barty partnered Storm Sanders in the women's doubles and reached the quarterfinals, where they were beaten by top-seeded Krejcikova and Siniakova, and fellow major champion John Peers in the mixed doubles, where they went on to become bronze medalists.

At the start of the 2022 season, Ashleigh Barty entered the doubles tournament in Adelaide alongside Sanders and won the title, defeating Darija Jurak Schreiber and Andreja Klepac in the final, subsequently completing the Adelaide sweep.

On 23 March 2022, Ashleigh Barty announced her retirement from tennis.

In 2022, Ashleigh Barty took up a role as "chief of inspiration" with the Australian telephone company Optus.

Two months later against Switzerland, Ashleigh Barty won her only match against No 56 Stefanie Vogele to clinch the tie for Australia and keep them in the top-level World Group the following year.

In singles, Ashleigh Barty was seeded No 1 and lost to Sara Sorribes Tormo in round one.

In doubles, Ashleigh Barty partnered Storm Sanders where they reached the quarterfinal.

In mixed doubles, Ashleigh Barty partnered John Peers and they won bronze, Australia's first ever medal in an Olympic mixed doubles competition.

In September 2020, Ashleigh Barty won the championship at the Brookwater Golf and Country Club, where she had originally met Kissick in 2016.