Five months after her retirement announcement shocked Australian sport and the global tennis community, Ashleigh Barty has confirmed that she’s at peace with her new existence.
Five months after her retirement announcement shocked Australian sport and the global tennis community, Ashleigh Barty has confirmed that she’s at peace with her new existence and that somehow mounting a comeback to pro tennis for a second time is nothing more than a remote prospect.
In March, Barty had said the “door is closed, but it’s not padlocked″ when contemplating the long-shot of a return to pro tennis down the track. Now the key to that lock is probably lost. Quirkily, her retirement has happened in the same year that one of the sport’s greats, 23-time major winner Serena Williams, flagged her imminent retirement. It’s just that the two stars are 15 years apart in age.Barty doesn’t carry regrets from her time in tennis, but she freely admits she would have loved one more crack at playing the American, a player who will forever have a 2-0 advantage against her.
“I would have loved to have challenged myself one last time. That’s my competitive spirit, and me learning from the experiences that I had. Williams will leave the sport in a blaze of publicity at the US Open. While retiring just short of her 41st birthday, she notably lamented the difficulties women face with juggling professional sporting careers and motherhood.
“They are two coaches who have impacted my professional career enormously and who have had so many experiences themselves,” she said.
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