Gadecki is still coming to terms with a career-changing week in which she reached her maiden WTA final and become the country’s No.1 women’s player, and Ash Barty has played a key role in her journey.
Australia’s new No.1 women’s player Olivia Gadecki paid tribute in her greatest moment to Ash Barty for helping her get through an “overwhelming” period that included quitting tennis.– started this week ranked No.152 in the world, but is guaranteed to earn her top-100 debut on Monday thanks to reaching her maiden WTA singles final.
She had never won a WTA main draw match outside Australia until the past week, and had to qualify for the Guadalajara tournament just to get her shot.A self-confessed nerve-riddled Gadecki dropped serve at 4-1 in the second set before twice brushing off break-back points while serving for the match against Osorio, and is now up to a career-high No.88 in the live rankings.
Gadecki, who has Ukrainian heritage, is also all-but-certain to be a grand slam main draw entrant off her own ranking for the first time at next year’s Australian Open.“I quit for about a year-and-a-half when I was 15, so year 10 in school because I was very overwhelmed with all the travel and schoolwork, and I was really struggling mentally,” Gadecki said.
“I always wanted to be a professional tennis player and the best in the world, but I never quite knew what it entailed; like, what sort of training, what sort of sacrifice, even just financially – all that sort of stuff,” Gadecki said. “Liv brings genuine life into Australian tennis. She is the one who injected oxygen back into my pre-seasons and my career, and I know she has had a unique journey, herself,” Barty told this masthead last year.“Now, I can see it in her eyes that she has got the hunger and the desire, and it is about her now putting her head down and finding the ways to enjoy it and keep it alive and keep it fun.”
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