Lin awareness of “having given everything I had“And not to have”nothing more to give“. Ashleigh Barty26 years old in April, this awareness has reached her from the top of the women’s tennis world rankingin which it occupies the first position in the world.
And so for her, who has only a quarter of a century behind her, the decision has come to leave tennis on a professional level. The announcement of her retirement came from her Instagram profile, where she posted an interview that her friend and coach made her Casey Dellacquahimself a former Australian tennis player.
«Today is a difficult and exciting day for me because I’m announcing my retirement from tennisWrote Ashleigh Barty, whose name alone made her opponents tremble.
Cold, precise, perfect, it is the eighth of all time with the most weeks in first place in the world ranking and the fourth in history to close for three consecutive years at the top of the rankings. Before her alone Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams.
Ashleigh Barty: “Now I’ll chase other dreams”
Ashleigh Barty says she feels “happy, ready and awareinside me, that is the right choice for me as a person. I’ve done it before, but in a very different way. I am grateful for tennis, which made me realize all my dreams, but I know it’s time to stop ». Now, she added, it is time for “ifollow other dreams“.
The number 1 tennis player in the world. (Instagram)
The tennis player admitted she was thinking about this decision for a long timebut that was «the victory at Wimbledon, my biggest dream, a make me change my perspective as a person and as an athlete. After Wimbledon, I told my team about it, I felt that something was missingthat I was not completely satisfied ».
Then came the challenge of the Australian Open and «I think it was the perfect way to celebrate the wonderful journey of my tennis career“.
In the second part of his career, he continued, “there has been a change of perspective“Because” lto my happiness it no longer depended on results“.
Success, as she defines it, «is to know that I have given all I could give. I am satisfied and I know how much work is needed to get the best out of ourselves“.
Say goodbye to professional tennis. (Ashleigh Barty)
“Physically I have nothing more to give”
The tennis player explained of no longer have «that desire, that drive which is necessary to keep surpassing each other from time to time. Physically, I have nothing more to giveI gave everything to tennis ».
Quitting playing – in his position as the best tennis player in the world – is a decision that many will find it hard to understand, and she is aware of it. “But for me, Ash Barty, there are so many dreams which does not include traveling the world to play tennis, staying away from my family and my home“.
Below, Ashleigh Barty and her future husband
This does not mean that “I will never stop loving tennis, because it has been a fundamental part of my life and always will be. But now I want enjoy the next chapter of my life how Ash Barty the personand not Ash Barty the athlete ».
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