_(cropped_2).jpg) Barty in 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Full name | Ashleigh Jacinta Barty | |||||||||||
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| Country (sports) |  Australia | |||||||||||
| Residence | Brookwater, Queensland, Australia[1] | |||||||||||
| Born | 24 April 1996[2] Ipswich, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[3] | |||||||||||
| Turned pro | April 2010 | |||||||||||
| Retired | March 2022 | |||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | |||||||||||
| Prize money | US$23,829,071[4] | |||||||||||
| Singles | ||||||||||||
| Career record | 305–102 | |||||||||||
| Career titles | 15 | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (24 June 2019) | |||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | W (2022) | |||||||||||
| French Open | W (2019) | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | W (2021) | |||||||||||
| US Open | 4R (2018, 2019) | |||||||||||
| Other tournaments | ||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | W (2019) | |||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (2020) | |||||||||||
| Doubles | ||||||||||||
| Career record | 200–64 | |||||||||||
| Career titles | 12 | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 5 (21 May 2018) | |||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | F (2013) | |||||||||||
| French Open | F (2017) | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | F (2013) | |||||||||||
| US Open | W (2018) | |||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | SF (2018) | |||||||||||
| Olympic Games | QF (2020) | |||||||||||
| Mixed doubles | ||||||||||||
| Career record | 7–8 | |||||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | |||||||||||
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | 2R (2014) | |||||||||||
| French Open | 1R (2013) | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | QF (2013) | |||||||||||
| US Open | QF (2014) | |||||||||||
| Other mixed doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | Bronze (2020) | |||||||||||
| Team competitions | ||||||||||||
| Fed Cup | F (2019) | |||||||||||
| Hopman Cup | RR (2013, 2019) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Ashleigh Jacinta Barty AO (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was the second Australian tennis player to be ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), holding the ranking for 121 weeks overall. She was also a top-10 player in doubles, having achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world. Barty is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, claiming titles at the 2019 French Open, the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2022 Australian Open. She is also a major doubles champion, having won the 2018 US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe. Barty won 15 singles titles and 12 doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
Born in Ipswich, Queensland, Barty began playing tennis at the age of four in nearby Brisbane. She had a promising junior career, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 2 in the world after winning the 2011 Wimbledon girls' singles title. As a teenager, Barty had early success in doubles on the WTA Tour in 2013, finishing runner-up at three Grand Slam doubles events with veteran Casey Dellacqua, including at the 2013 Australian Open while 16 years old. Late in the 2014 season, Barty decided to take an indefinite break from tennis. She ended up playing cricket during this hiatus, signing with the Brisbane Heat for the inaugural Women's Big Bash League season despite having no formal training in the sport.
Barty returned to tennis in early 2016. She had a breakthrough year in singles in 2017, winning her first WTA title at the Malaysian Open and rising to No. 17 in the world despite having never been ranked inside the top 100 before her time off. She also had another prolific year in doubles with Dellacqua, culminating in her first appearance at the WTA Finals in doubles. Barty then won her first Premier Mandatory and major tournament titles in doubles in 2018 before accomplishing the same feat in singles in 2019, highlighted by her victory at the 2019 French Open. Barty won five more titles in 2021, including a second major singles title at the Wimbledon Championships and two WTA 1000 titles. With her title at the 2022 Australian Open, she won a major in singles on all three surfaces. Barty also led Australia to a runner-up finish at the 2019 Fed Cup and won a bronze medal in mixed doubles at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Barty was an all-court player with a wide variety of shots. Despite her short stature for a professional tennis player, she was an excellent server, regularly ranking among the WTA Tour's leaders in aces and percentage of service points won. She serves as the National Indigenous Tennis Ambassador for Tennis Australia. Barty announced her retirement from tennis in March 2022, two months after her Australian Open title and still ranked No. 1 in singles at the time, having held the ranking for all but four weeks between June 2019 and April 2022 when she relinquished the ranking. Her 114 consecutive weeks at No. 1 (not including when rankings were frozen between March and August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) is the fourth-longest streak in WTA history.[5]
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