Just like that, she’s party.
A champion.
As a number one uncontested global.
And as the winner of “his” tournament, the Australian Open.
The latter’s image as a tennis player remains its coronation on its lands. There’s no better way to go, dit-on. But I would be ready to parry that this idea of grandeur does not have much price on it.
Because she’s like it, Ashleigh Barty. It is exceptionally different, on the ground as in life.
In a tennis style where the styles are uniform as the surfaces, Barty imposes them and triumphs in his difference, in finesse, in his variety of game.
Quite to take the whole world in reverse, the Australian has therefore announced her sporting retirement for only 25 years, while she came to start her 120th week in the WTA rankings (and her 113th consecutive). She gave it all, she explained in an interview with her former double partner, Casey Dellacqua. She has no more envy.
Combine his concubines, females or females, would take the same decision? Op est loin de la race au record du Big Three composed by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Aux antipodes, mêmes. Car Barty was able to continue to steal the titles and millions over the years, as a gouffre the separation of the rest of the circuit, tennis speaking. She had decided to listen and live her life, and not the one who promised him.
Heroine who ignores
Barty was an atypical female tennis champion.
Clean your house, watch television, be there by your siblings, his fiancé Garry Kissick and their dogs Affie, Chino, Rudy, Maxi and Origi … Barty has always been on a quest for normalcy while tennis appeals to him of the scene.
She did not have the Glamor personality that certainly demanded the circuit, which is simply renewed, and which needs to be incarnated by the champions, by the rivals, by the stories. But it is precisely its simplicity, its non-conformity and its discretion that has made the heroine despite its perfection.
Simona Halep, in alarm, is addressed to “Ash” on social networks, blagrant that her friend could aim to become the number one in golf. After all, in terms of the US Open 2014, Barty had already announced his tennis career between parents, trying (with success) to go to Cricket, before returning to the WTA in 2016.
This time, things seem different. She has set her goal to win a Grand Chelem tournament in 2019, at Roland-Garros. She then realized her greatest dream: to win Wimbledon, in 2021. It is at this moment that the idea of an early retirement has begun to germinate. It remains more than to cover a last case to accomplish as a player, to know how to become Australian Open champion (which no Australian has had since Chris O’Neil, in 1978 ).
And the US Open, in all that? The possibility of becoming the seventh player only to take away the four tournaments of the Grand Chelem?
This is not the most important thing for her.
Until he bout, he traversed his path in his own way, and according to his own rules.
Andy Murray needs a few words to express his general sentiment. “Happy for Ash Barty, but disgusting for tennis. Quelle joueuse! »
An echo of the past
I’m sad. Barty was my favorite player, the one who gave me the most pleasure on the courts. His tennis left me wanting, as much as his humility, his good manners and his little rickshaw that always allowed him to carry a certain gene to move between projectors and cameras.
His retirement surprised and echoed in history. As Barty, Justine Hénin were 25 years old and at the summit of the WTA when they announced a term in their careers, in 2008, with seven titles from Grand Chelem to his palms.
Five years earlier, Martina Hingis had announced her retirement only 22 years ago, after receiving 5 titles from Grand Chelem and occupying the world number one spot for 209 weeks. Kim Clijsters was 23 years old in 2007, when she said goodbye to the circuit.
The common point between Hénin, Hingis and Clijsters: all three ended in revenge on their decision and tried, with more or less success, to make their return to the highest level of world tennis, a few months or years later.
Is that Barty imitating them? Your opinion is as much as mine. If I had to venture to a prediction, I would say it will return as well. Car Barty said he gave everything to tennis, everything he could, and I crossed it. But once life is resurrected, it can be found to find the desire to have life. I can also be that I drink.
After all, Barty has never been there before. It’s what made her the best. His choice of arresting him confers to him, whether he wants it or not, a legacy status of his sport.
A statute that will reject sure. Car Barty stops just to leave the place in Ashleigh, a person all the more normal, who simply aspires to something else to play tennis.
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