Tennis: World unit Ashleigh Barty ended her career (story) – Sportnet.sk

BRATISLAVA. She is 25 years old and has finished her career for the second time. At the absolute peak, as the reigning winner of Wimbledon and the home Australian Open. Ashleigh Barty has always presented herself on the court with a very elegant game. She just looked at her well. With her ease, she resembled Roger Federer in the women’s version with each stroke. Now she ends her career in style as well. As a world unit. Her last match will be the winning final of the Australian Open against Danielle Collins. “I feel ready. I feel it’s right for me now. I’m grateful for everything tennis has given me,” Barty said in a video in which she announced end of career. “I know how much effort it costs to do my best. I don’t have it in me anymore. I’ve exhausted it,” she continued. “It changed me a lot when I won Wimbledon. “It will change your perspective,” she added. Once it was over, she invited her good friend and former Australian tennis player Casey Dellacqua to the video. She was one of the first congratulators on the court after Barty’s triumph at the Australian Open. It is also associated with the first part of the career of the still reigning world unit. In 2013, as teammates in doubles, they played the finals of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Barty was barely 17 years old. Surprisingly, at the age of 18, she announced the end of her career in 2014. “It was too early for me to still travel at such a young age. I wanted to experience the life of a normal teenager,” she said later about her first end of her career. started playing cricket professionally. In 2016, she announced that she was returning to tennis. She survived an extremely successful return.