Tennis: Ash Barty retires at 25
BRISBANE, Australia –
World No. 1-ranked Ash Barty has introduced her retirement from tennis on the age of 25.
Barty mentioned in an emotional video posted Wednesday on social media: “I am so completely satisfied and I am so prepared. I simply know in the intervening time in my coronary heart for me as an individual that is proper.”
The announcement comes lower than two months after she received her residence Australian Open, her third Grand Slam singles title.
“It is the primary time I’ve truly mentioned it out loud and, yeah, it is arduous to say,” Barty advised her former doubles companion Casey Dellacqua within the video interview. “However I am so completely satisfied, and I am so prepared.
“I haven’t got the bodily drive, the emotional need and every part it takes to problem your self on the very high of the extent any extra. I’m spent.”
Barty, who left tennis in 2014 to pursue knowledgeable cricket profession however returned to the game two years later, received her three main singles titles on three completely different surfaces — on clay on the 2019 French Open, on grass at Wimbledon final 12 months and on the arduous courts of Melbourne Park on the Australian Open in January.
The WTA Tour mentioned Barty has held the No. 1 rating for 114 consecutive weeks.
Barty mentioned tennis has “given me all of my goals, plus extra, however I do know that the time is correct now for me to step away and chase different goals, and to place the rackets down.”
