“It’s been everything that I’ve ever wanted” Ashleigh Barty has no regrets after her early retirement

“It’s been everything that I’ve ever wanted” Ashleigh Barty has no regrets after her early retirement

Ash Barty

Ashleigh Barty is an Australian professional tennis player and cricketer. She was the second Australian tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in the world in singles by the WTA after fellow Indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley, holding the ranking for 121 weeks overall. She was also a top-10 player in doubles, having achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world. Barty is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion and the reigning champion at the Australian Open.

She is also a Grand Slam doubles champion, having won the 2018 US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe. Barty won 15 singles titles and 12 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Barty came up quickly in the rankings of WTA, after her 2010 debut, winning the Wimbledon junior title a year later at the age of 15. But she left the tour three years later in 2014, talking about burnouts from the constant travel, and joined a professional cricket team in Australia. Barty became the first native player to have won the Australian Open in 44 years.

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Ashleigh Barty doesn’t regret being retired at 26

Ashleigh Barty after winning the Australian Open 2022.

Barty recently announced her decision to take retirement through an Instagram post in an informal interview with her former doubles partner Casey Dellacqua in which she claimed that her decision is right for herself and that everyone should respect her decision.

“I’ve no regrets about retiring. Not one. I knew it was the right time for me. It was what I wanted to do. And I know that a lot of people may still not understand it. But I hope they respect that in the sense that it was my decision. And yeah, it’s been incredible. It’s been everything that I’ve ever wanted,” said Barty in comments reported by Tennis Majors.

The decision came just two months after her victory at the Australian Open in which she defeated Danielle Collins of the USA by 6-3, 7-6 in the women’s singles final. Her retirement sent shocking waves in Tennis as she was the big star in WTA singles and was doing a fantastic job leading the Tour.

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