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World number one female tennis player Ashleigh Barty suddenly announced her retirement

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Australian tennis player Ashleigh Barty wins the Australian Open championship trophy in Melbourne, January 29, 2022. Documentary photo: AFP/VNA

In an interview with the WTA Tour site, the Australian tennis player shared: “This is the first time I have officially announced my decision to retire and it is difficult to talk about this. But now I no longer want to challenge myself. at the highest level. I gave everything I had to tennis and I’m really happy for that. For me, that’s success.”

She added that she had considered retiring for a long time. Her view changed during the second phase of her career that happiness does not depend on results. After the successes she achieved at the top of her career, she now considers it important to “enjoy life as Ash Barty, not athlete Ash Barty”.

Ashleigh Barty is one of the most successful Australian female tennis players in history. She has won a total of 15 WTA titles, including 3 Grand Slam titles including Roland Garros 2019, Wimbledon 2021 and Australian Open 2022. With this achievement, Ashleigh Barty has maintained the No. 1 position in the world for 114 years. consecutive weeks and still holds the No. 1 position with 7,890 points, far ahead of the second-ranked opponent – Polish tennis player Iga Swiątek- with more than 2,204 points.

According to the prestigious Forbes magazine, Barty earned about 3 million USD (£2.3 million) last year and was the eighth highest paid female athlete in the same period (with 6.9 million USD). .

Barty is one of the rare athletes to retire at the peak of his career. Previously, Kim Clijsters retired for the first time in 2007, at the age of 23 and was ranked 4th on the WTA rankings. Two years later, Kim Clijsters returned, winning two consecutive US Open championships. This tennis player retired for the second time in 2013 before re-appearing in 2020.

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