Ideally primed for Melbourne Park this coming fortnight, Ashleigh Barty must either forget the near misses of the past two years in Melbourne, or draw lessons from them | scottspits SMHsport
Having realised a childhood dream in winning Wimbledon, world No.1 Ashleigh Barty now embarks on a fresh assault to end one of the most significant droughts in Australian sport: the nation’s 44-year wait to produce another home-grown Australian Open singles champion.. She’s refreshed after ending her 2021 season early, she is the season-ending top-ranked woman for a third straight year and she pocketed another title in Adelaide last week.
There was heartbreak in 2020 when eventual champion Sofia Kenin shocked her in the semi-finals. In eerily similar circumstances last year, Karolina Muchova got the better of Barty in three sets after the Czech found her rhythm after a controversial medical time-out.
She’ll embrace every moment and every challenge with a smile: Barty filmed a campaign for Uber Eats that will air during the Australian Open. “It was a bit weird because [when it happened] it felt like it was so long after the fact,” Barty said. “I spoke about it a little last week,” she said. “What Novak is going through – obviously at the moment it’s in the courts and we can’t really comment on it. But I just genuinely have no interest in speaking about it.”
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