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World’s No.1 Ashleigh Barty Biography

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Ashleigh Barty

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Ashleigh Barty is an Australian Tennis player who has been ranked number 1 in the world singles by the Women’s Tennis Associations (WTA) and is the second Australian after fellow Indigenous Australian player, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, to achieve the status.

Ashleigh Barty Biography

Name Ashleigh Barty
Country (Sports) Australia
Birth 24-Apr-96
Age 25
Height 1.66 m (5ft 5 in)
Net Worth USD 4-5 million

Ashleigh Barty Early Life

  • Barty was born on April 24, 1996, to Josie and Robert Barty.
  • She grew up in Springfield, a suburb of Ipswich in Queensland.
  • She grew up playing netball.
  • She did not play cricket growing up, although she went on to play it professionally.
  • Her professional coaching started at the West Brisbane Tennis Centre.
  • At the age of 12, she started playing against her male counterparts.

Ashley Barty Education

  • Barty graduated from Woodcrest State College, Australia.

Ashleigh Barty Early Career

  • Barty reached a career-high ITF world ranking of No. 2, having excelled in both singles and doubles before turning 14.
  • She started playing low–level events in the ITF Junior Circuit in 2009.
  • At the age of 13, she won her first title at the Grade 4 Australian International.
  • In 2011, Barty played her first junior Grand Slam event at the Australian Open, where she lost her opening match to Lauren Davis.
  • She won her only junior Grand Slam title at Wimbledon at the age of 15.
  • Barty became the second Australian to win the Girls’ Singles event after Debbie Freeman at the 1998 US Open.

Ashleigh Barty Professional Career

  • Barty started her professional career in April 2010 at the age of 14.
  • In 2011, she entered three more USD 25K events in Australia.
  • Following her Girls’ Singles title at Wimbledon, Tennis Australia awarded Barty a wildcard into qualifying at the US Open.
  • In 2012, Barty made her singles and doubles main draw debut in the WTA Tour.
  • She made her Grand Slam main draw debut the very next week at the Australian Open.
  • Barty won four ITF titles in both singles and doubles.
  • Her quarter-final appearance in the singles format at the same tournament helped her rise to No. 177 in the WTA singles rankings.
  • Interestingly, she cracked the top 200 of the WTA singles rankings a few weeks earlier at the age of 16.
  • She also finished the year with a rank No. 129 in doubles.
  • After the 2014 US Open, Barty took a professional break from tennis.
  • In 2015, she developed an interest in cricket after meeting the Australian women’s national team.
  • She started playing for the Western Suburbs District Cricket Club – a local cricket team.
  • In December, Barty made her debut and hit 39 off 27 balls with one six in a match against Melbourne Stars.
  • In 2016, Barty returned to tennis after the WBBL season.
  • She played in five tournaments and won three of them.
  • Barty also got a wildcard entry into qualifying at Wimbledon.
  • In 2017, she reunited with Dellacqua as her regular double partner finishing the year in the top 20 in both rankings.
  • During the US Open series, Barty reached Premier 5 rounds of 16 at the Canadian Open and the Cincinnati Open.
  • Barty established a new career-high doubles world ranking of No. 11 in 2018.
  • In 2019, Barty made her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open, defeating Maria Sharapova.
  • In 2021, after nearly 11 months, Barty returned to the tennis courts at the Yarra Valley Classic, one of the three lead-up tournaments to the Australian Open.

Ashleigh Barty Achievements

ITF awards

  • Fed Cup Heart Award: 2019
  • World Champion: 2019

WTA awards

  • Player of the Year: 2019

Sport Australia Hall of Fame

  • The Don Award: 2019

Australian Tennis Awards

  • Newcomer Medal: 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Female Junior Athlete of the Year: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

AIS Sport Performance Awards

  • ABC Sport Personality of the Year: 2019
  • Female Athlete of the Year: 2019
  • Sporting Moment of the Year: 2019

Australian Women’s Health Sport Awards

  • Sportswoman of the Year: 2019
  • Moment of The Year: 2019

National Dreamtime Awards

  • Female Sportsperson: 2017, 2018, 2019

Sportsmanship

  • US Open: 2018

Young Australian of the Year Awards

Young Australian of the Year: 2020

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