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Ashleigh Jacinta Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 121 weeks, and was ranked world No. 5 in doubles. Barty won 12 WTA Tour-level singles titles, and three majors at the 2019 French Open, 2021 Wimbledon Championships, and 2022 Australian Open, as well as the 2019 WT…
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Won the Australian Open Women with WTA Tour Womens (2022).
Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (2022).
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Barty also took up a role as "chief of inspiration" with the Australian telephone company Optus
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Won the WTA Cincinnati Open with WTA Tour Womens (2021).
Won the Wimbledon Women with WTA Tour Womens (2021).
Barty started to partner with Jennifer Brady
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Including a second major singles title at the Wimbledon Championships and two WTA 1000 titles
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Won the Olympics Bronze with Australia Tennis (2020).
Won the French Open Women with WTA Tour Womens (2019).
Before accomplishing the same feat in singles in 2019, highlighted by her victory at the 2019 French Open
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Winning her first WTA Tour title at the Malaysian Open and rising to No
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Barty reunited with Dellacqua as her regular doubles partner, and reached the quarterfinals or better at three out of four Grand Slam tournaments during the season
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Played for Queensland Fire (2015–2016).
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Barty took a break from professional tennis from September 2014 until February 2016, and played semi-professional cricket during the second half of that hiatus.
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“[taking] a break from professional tennis”
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Barty had another good year in doubles with Dellacqua as her regular partner
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And also their first Premier title together
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At the age of 16, playing in two away ties
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Where she competed alongside Bernard Tomic after Dellacqua withdrew before the tournament due to a foot injury
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When they were the fifth-ranked team and only the top four were accepted instead of eight
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Joined Australia Tennis in 2013.
Barty began playing primarily at the WTA Tour level
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Finishing runner-up at three major doubles events with Casey Dellacqua
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Played for Australia Billie Jean King Cup team (2013).
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Entered three more $25K events in Australia, with her best results being two quarterfinals
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At the Australian Open, where she lost her opening match to third seed Lauren Davis
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Joined WTA Tour Womens in 2010.
At the age of 13 and won her first title at the Grade-4 Australian International before turning 14
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Born 1996-04-24.
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And picked up her first top ten win at a major (quarterfinals over Kvitová)
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And the first top seed to win since Serena Williams in 2016
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And the first Australian girl to win any junior Grand Slam singles title since Jelena Dokic at the 1998 US Open
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And the first Australian to win a Grand Slam singles title since Sam Stosur at the 2011 US Open
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