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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