Ashleigh barty

Ashleigh Barty is a professional tennis player of Australian nationality.

Summary

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• 1 Biographical synthesis
• 2 Sports career
• 3 Titles as a professional
  • 1 Grand Slam individual titles
  • 2 Double Grand Slam titles
  • 3 Titles in WTA tournaments (Singles)
  • 4 Titles in WTA tournaments (Doubles)
• 4 References
• 5 Sources

Biographical synthesis

Born on April 24, 1996 in Ipswick, Australia. She was the 2011 junior Wimbledon winner at the age of 15.

Sports career

She retires from tennis at the age of 18, after being defeated in the first round of the US Open . From September of 2014 takes an indefinite break from tennis.

She briefly ventured into cricket in 2015 , landing a contract with the Brisbane Heat team for the inaugural edition of the Women’s Big Bash League.

In 2016 he returned to tennis after two years without playing. ^[1]

She begins to improve steadily and in the Wuhan Open Tournament she defeats Karolína Plíšková , Johanna Konta and Jelena Ostapenko and reaches the first final of a great of her career, although later she would lose the final to Caroline García .

In 2017 , after being out of the top 300 for just one year, she reached number 17 in the world after a good winning streak, the last one in the semifinals of the Zhuhai Tournament , an event played by players from positions 12 to the 20 of the WTA ranking. ^[2]

Reaches the first victory in individual category WTA tournaments in the Kuala Lumpur Tournament as well as in 3 doubles tournaments in which he always pairs with his compatriot Casey Dellacqua .

In 2018 he consolidated himself on the circuit, ending the year as the 15th best racket in the world and adding 2 more WTA titles, those achieved in Nottingham and Zhuhai . She established herself as a great doubles player by winning up to 4 more tournaments including her first Grand Slam title , the US Open with the North American Coco Vandeweghe . ^[3]

In February of 2019 contributes in the victory over the United States in the Fed Cup , and in April in the semifinal against Belarus and he becomes the first player to win six successive games in the history of the competition under the current format and takes Australia to the first final since 1993 . ^[4]

In March , he wins the Miami Premier Mandatory tournament . With this result, she enters the top 10 of the WTA for the first time in her career by placing ninth. ^[5]

At Roland Garros he achieved the first individual title of the career in a Grand Slam by beating Markéta Vondroušová 6-1, 6-3 in the final . In this way it rises to position 2 in the world rankings. ^[6]

She takes the title in the Birmingham Tournament by beating the German Julia Goerges in the final and became number one in the world by beating the Japanese Naomi Osaka in the classification. ^[7]

At the end of the season, she achieved the title at the WTA Finals held in Shenzhen , China by defeating the defending champion Elina Svitolina in the final . ^[8]

She was elected in 2019 as the most prominent player of the year in the WTA, thanks to her excellent results on the professional circuit.

Barty received 82 percent of the votes in the poll to lead Canada’s Bianca Andreescu , champion of the US Open, Romanian Simona Halep , winner at Wimbledon and Japanese Naomi Osaka, holder of the Australian Open tournament . ^[9]

2020 begins with the same regularity of the previous year and prevails in the Adelaide International Tournament , defeating the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska in the final . ^[10]

Titles as a professional

Grand Slam individual titles

Double Grand Slam titles

WTA Tournament Titles (Singles)

WTA Tournament Titles (Doubles)