NY Times · Mar 23, 2022
No. 1 Ashleigh Barty Retiring From Tennis
Ashleigh Barty won 15 singles titles, including three at Grand Slam tournaments.Credit...Brenton Edwards/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAshleigh Barty, the world No. 1 women’s tennis player who won the Australian Open in January, announced that she was retiring.
Barty, who turns 26 next month, posted a video to Instagram announcing her decision through a conversation with Casey Dellacqua, a fellow Australian player and one of her doubles partners. Barty said she’d also hold a news conference.
She won 15 career singles titles, including three at Grand Slam tournaments: She won the French Open in 2019, Wimbledon in 2021 and the Australian Open this year.