So near, and yet so far for Ash Barty at the Australian Open — but the famously positive Aussie star finds a way to smile thanks to a very young supporter.
It would have been a nervous day for anyone — playing under the weight of expectations in front of an adoring home crowd, with the prospect of ending a 40-year wait for an Australian woman to make the final of the country's biggest tournament., but Ash Barty walked into a packed press conference at Melbourne Park with some precious cargo, and a smile that belied her disappointment.
"It's my newest niece, my sister just had her, 11 or 12 weeks ago," Barty said in introduction to the press corps.Perhaps it should have come as no surprise that Ipswich's most famous daughter was accentuating the positive, despite the end of her Australian Open dreams for 2020.
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