Ashleigh Barty Documentary She Put Australian Tennis Back On The Map
Ashleigh Barty Documentary She Put Australian Tennis Back On The Map
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00:00 There was a time when Australia used to produce tennis greats.
00:05 But then there came a long dark gap, and European countries along with a handful of players
00:11 from the US started to rule the sport of tennis.
00:15 But after some wait, finally, Australians had a sigh of relief thanks to one Ashley
00:21 Barty.
00:23 Welcome to the Rich Rabbit, and today we'll be talking about the tennis queen of Australia,
00:28 Ashley Barty.
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00:40 Born in Ipswich in Queensland, Barty began playing tennis at the age of four in nearby
00:46 Brisbane.
00:47 Her father works in the government and is a Nairubu Indigenous Australian.
00:55 Her mother works as a radiographer and is the daughter of English immigrants.
01:00 Barty grew up in Springfield, a suburb of Ipswich, and attended Woodcrest State College
01:07 throughout her upbringing.
01:09 She has two older sisters named Sarah and Ellie.
01:13 Besides tennis, Barty also played netball as a child.
01:18 But she later decided to focus on tennis because she thought netball was a girls' game and
01:24 also the fact that her sisters were better than her at it.
01:30 She did not play cricket while growing up.
01:33 Barty started working with her long-time junior coach, Jim Joyce, at the West Brisbane Tennis
01:39 Centre at the age of four.
01:42 Joyce remarked that he did not typically train children as young as Barty, but he made an
01:48 exception because of her excellent hand-eye coordination and high level of focus.
01:55 Former tennis professional Scott Draper later joined Barty's coaching team and worked with
02:01 her at the National Academy.
02:04 When she was 15 years old, former top-20 player Jason Stoltenberg took over as her primary
02:10 coach.
02:12 Barty's junior schedule took her to Europe and away from her family in Australia for
02:17 much of the year.
02:19 The season she turned 17, she was only home for 27 days during the entire calendar year.
02:29 Barty reached the career-high ITF World Junior Ranking of No. 2, having excelled at both
02:34 singles and doubles.
02:38 She started playing low-level events on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2009 at the age of 13.
02:45 She won her first title at the Grade 4 Australian International before turning 14.
02:53 Barty continued to only play in tournaments below the higher tiers until the end of 2010.
02:59 Nonetheless, she compiled a record of 24-2 in her five events that season, while also
03:06 capturing a Grade 2 title in Thailand.
03:11 After a second-round loss at the 2011 French Open, Barty won her only junior Grand Slam
03:16 title at Wimbledon at the age of 15.
03:21 She became just the second Australian to win the girls' singles event after Debbie Freeman
03:27 in 1980 and the first Australian girl to win any junior Grand Slam singles title since
03:33 Jelena Dokic at the 1998 US Open.
03:38 In the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, Barty produced another strong singles result,
03:45 losing to top seed Caroline Garcia in the semifinals of the US Open.
03:51 Barty also won two more Grade 1 titles in doubles that season, one at Roehampton the
03:56 week before Wimbledon and the other at the Canadian Open the week before the US Open.
04:04 Barty started her professional career in 2010.
04:07 Just after turning 14 at an ITF event in her hometown of Ipswich.
04:15 She lost her first match to Karolina Volochuk.
04:18 Barty played in one more main draw that year in Mount Gambier, when she reached the semifinals
04:25 in just her second professional tournament.
04:30 Her first pro match win came against Ayufani Tamayanti.
04:34 In 2011, she entered three more $25,000 events in Australia, with her best results being
04:41 two quarterfinals.
04:43 Following her girls' singles title at Wimbledon, Tennis Australia awarded Barty a wild card
04:49 into qualifying at the US Open.
04:53 In her first WTA Tour level appearance, she was unable to qualify for the main draw, losing
04:59 her opening round match to Julia Glushko.
05:04 Cassie closed out the year by competing in a playoff for one of the Australian wild card
05:08 birds into the main draw of the 2012 Australian Open.
05:13 Despite being the youngest player in the competition, she won all five of her matches without dropping
05:19 a set to earn the wild card.
05:22 She swept her round robin group featuring world number 133 Cassie Delacroix before defeating
05:28 number 239 Irina Rodionova and number 167 Olivia Rogowska in the knockout stage.
05:37 Barty made her singles and doubles main draw debuts on the WTA Tour in early 2012.
05:44 Her doubles debut came at the Brisbane International, the first event of the year.
05:50 After losing in singles qualifying, she partnered with Delacroix to make the semifinals in doubles
05:56 while still just 15 years old.
05:59 Barty was awarded another wild card into the 2013 Australian Open singles main draw but
06:05 lost her opening match.
06:08 Towards the end of February, she won her first two WTA Tour level matches at the Malaysian
06:14 Open against Chanel Simmons and Zarina Diaz before her run ended in the quarterfinals.
06:22 Barty's only of the two tour level singles wins of 2013 came at Grand Slam tournaments.
06:28 She was awarded main draw wild cards into the French Open and US Open, where she won
06:34 her first round matches at both events.
06:39 After the 2014 US Open, Barty announced she was taking a break from professional tennis.
06:45 She later said that she took time off from tennis because it was too much too quickly
06:50 for her as she's been travelling from quite a young age.
06:54 "I wanted to experience life as a normal teenage girl and have some normal experiences,"
07:00 she said.
07:02 Barty was ranked outside of the top 200 in singles and was number 40 in doubles at the
07:08 time.
07:11 Barty became interested in potentially playing cricket after meeting with the Australian
07:15 Women's National Team in early 2015 to discuss her experience as a professional athlete.
07:23 She was intrigued by the opportunity to play a team sport as a change from the individual
07:29 sport of tennis.
07:30 At the time, she had no competitive cricket experience, having only played casually with
07:37 her family.
07:39 Barty later approached Queensland Cricket about how she could get involved with the
07:44 sport.
07:47 Barty began training with the Queensland Fire in July.
07:52 She also started playing for the Western Suburbs District Cricket Club, a local team that competes
07:58 in Brisbane Women's Premier Cricket T20 League.
08:03 She had an impressive second game for the team, scoring 63 from 60 to go along with
08:09 taking 2 for 13 from 4 overs.
08:13 Barty played in 13 matches for Western Suburbs, scoring one century and averaging 42.4 runs
08:21 while taking 8 wickets.
08:24 Western Suburbs ultimately won the league's grand final, with Barty ending up the team's
08:29 top scorer in the match after hitting 37 from 39 balls.
08:36 She later went on to become number one in the world and the second Australian ever to
08:41 reach the top after Yvonne Goulagon-Cowley.
08:46 Barty has won 8 singles titles and 10 doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
08:52 This includes one Grand Slam singles title at the 2019 French Open and one Grand Slam
08:58 doubles title at the 2018 US Open with partner Coco Wanderwick.
09:05 She had a breakout year in singles in 2017, winning her first WTA title at the Malaysian
09:11 Open and rising to number 17 in the world despite having never been ranked inside the
09:17 top 100 before her time off.
09:24 She also had another prolific year in doubles with Jalacqua, culminating in her first appearance
09:30 at the WTA Finals in doubles.
09:35 Barty then won her first Premier Mandatory and Grand Slam tournament titles in doubles
09:40 in 2018 before accomplishing the same feat in singles in 2019.
09:48 She also led Australia to a runner-up finish at the 2019 Fed Cup.
09:54 Barty is an all-court player who employs a wide variety of shots into her style of play.
10:01 With her short stature for a professional tennis player, she is an excellent server.
10:08 The Australian is regularly ranked among the WTA Tour's leaders in aces and percentage
10:13 of service points won.
10:16 Barty serves as the National Indigenous Tennis Ambassador for Tennis Australia.
10:24 She was recognized as the Female Sportsperson of the Year at the National Dreamtime Awards,
10:29 a ceremony that honors Indigenous Australians in both 2017 and 2018.
10:37 Barty was honoured as the Young Australian of the Year in 2020.
10:45 She is a supporter of a variety of sports teams, including the Richmond Football Club
10:49 in the Australian Football League, Manchester United in the English Premier League and West's
10:55 Tigers in the National Rugby League.
10:59 Looking at the incredibly early career start of Ashley Barty, she seemed to have been losing
11:04 out on her social life.
11:06 However, she has found her love, Gary Kissick, a professional Australian golfer.
11:13 We sure hope that you have learnt a lot about the life of one of the tennis greats, Ashley
11:17 Barty.
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