Ashley Barty, a 25-year-old Australian tennis star, is the eighth woman in the world and the first Australian woman to hold the world number one position in the latest WTA rankings for 100 weeks.
Ashley Barty is the first Australian athlete to cross the 100-week milestone as the world number one in both the men's and women's categories. Earlier, former Australian tennis star Leighton Hewitt held the world number one position for 80 weeks.
It took Ashley Barty 11 years to reach this milestone. He started playing professional tennis in April 2010.
Ashley Barty first reached the world number one position on June 24, 2019, when she lost the title to Naomi Osaka of Japan. Barty remained world number one for just seven weeks in his first round and was again stripped of that position by Naomi Osaka, but Ashley Barty became world number four again four weeks later.
He has been in that position ever since. Tennis tournaments were canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the WTA also froze the tennis rankings, which had been in limbo for about 20 weeks. After the resumption of tennis tournaments, Ashley Barty continues to hold the position due to her impressive performance. He has won five titles this year, including the Wimbledon singles title.
The WTA World Tennis Rankings were introduced in 1975. A total of 27 players from around the world have reached the world number one position, including seven Americans, but only eight players have the honor of occupying this position for 100 weeks. Has been obtained. Chris Evert of the United States first became the world number one on November 3, 1975, and has held the position for 25 consecutive weeks since then.
He was stripped of the title by Australia's Ivan Golagong Cowley but could not hold the position for more than two weeks and was stripped of the position by Chris Evert, after which Chris Evert became the world number one for 113 consecutive weeks. Stay Chris Everett was stripped of that position by Martina Neura Tellova of the United States on July 10, 1978.
Chris Evert, Martina Neva Tellova, Tracy Austin, Lance Davenport, Jennifer Capriati, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Justin Henin of Belgium, Kim Clusters Germany's Steffi Graf, Angelique Kerber, Spain's Erntza Sanchez Vicario, Garbin Muguroza, Serbia's Anna Ivanovich and Jelena Jankovic, Switzerland's Martina Hingis, Russia's Maria Sharapova, Dinara Safina, Denmark's Caroline Rosenka Simonahalip, Czech Republic's Carolina Pliskova, Japan's Naomi Osaka, Australia's Ivan Gulagong Cavalli, Ashley Barty, France's Emily Maurice, Yugoslavia and the United States' Monica Seles.
Monica Seles has the unique honor of representing two countries and achieving the world number one position.
German legend Steffi Graf tops the WTA world rankings with 377 weeks, while tennis legend Martina Neuratilova (USA) 332 weeks, Serena Williams (USA) 319 weeks, Chris Evert (USA) 260 weeks, Swiss Miss Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 209 weeks, Monica Seles (Yugoslavia (USA)) 178 weeks and Justin Henin (Belgium) 117 weeks have held the world number one position.
Five Australian players have reached the world number one position in men's and women's tennis. In the men's category, Australia's John Newcomb (8 weeks), Patrick Rafter (one week) and Layton Hewitt (80 weeks) held the world number one position. Patrick Rafter deprived Andre Agassi of the world number one title, while Pat Simpras snatched the position from Rafter just a week later.
In the women's category, Golagong Kale was also number one in the world for just two weeks. Golagong has the distinction of being the second world number one player in the history of the WTA. He was supposed to snatch the award from Chris Evert, but Chris Evert later deprived Golagong of the position.
Australian tennis star Ashley Barty has been described as an upgraded version of Martina Hingis. Ashley Barty is about 1550 points ahead of world number two Ariana Sabalinka. Given this clear lead, it seems certain that rival players will have to perform exceptionally to deprive Barty of this position.
Australian tennis star Barty could have added more points, but Barty recently withdrew from the WTA Indian Wells tournament without giving a reason. The tournament was also rescheduled for the third time due to Corona Pandamic. Barty had participated in the event twice before but could not advance beyond Round 16.
Ashley Barty did not participate in any tennis tournament after losing at the US Open in which she was surprisingly defeated by Shelby Rogers of the United States in the third round, even though she went to New York as a top seed and favorite. Earlier in the Tokyo Olympics, Ashley Barty was defeated by a Spanish athlete and her desire to win a gold medal was shattered. However, Ashley Barty managed to win a bronze medal in mixed doubles.
After withdrawing from the Indian Wells event, Ashley Barty announced that she would not be participating in the rest of the tennis season, which meant that she would not participate in the WTA finals. She was the defending champion in this tournament. Barty also won the WTA title in Shenzhen in 2019 with a trophy worth 6. 6.4 million.
The WTA final was also canceled last year due to the coup. The tournament will take place in Mexico in November. Ashley Barty's coach Craig Teaser says Mexico is located at an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level and the situation at the tournament venue in Guadalajara will be extremely challenging for players as there is a lack of oxygen and the match uses pressure balls. Which are made to fly and it is very difficult for players to play controlled shots on these balls.
These balls do not bounce if used in a normal environment. Players who have never played with such an environment and balls. It would be funny for them to play with these balls. The coach says that Ashley Barty is focused on the first Grand Slam of the New Year, the Australian Open, and she wants to participate in this tournament at home.
Due to the Corona Pandamic, Barty spent the rest of 2020 in Australia. But when the tennis tournaments resumed, he had to undergo the Corona Test about 70 times and all the tests were negative. Before the tournaments, she had to be quarantined according to the rules, but now she is unable to undergo quarantine and continuous corona tests. That is why he is currently barred from participating in tournaments outside Australia, as those returning to Australia after a trip abroad have to undergo mandatory and strict 15-day quarantine in approved hotels.
In this quarantine, people are not even allowed to open the window of the room. Ashley Barty had asked Australian authorities to quarantine her at home, which was rejected. "I'm tired of being locked in a room and I'm nervous," he said. Therefore, Bafi will not participate in tournaments abroad in the remaining season. She left Australia after March 2021 and continued to travel, facing corona tests and quarantine everywhere.
Australian tennis star Ashley Barty has won 13 singles and 11 doubles titles in her career. She won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open in 2019, and in 2021 she won her second Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, beating Carolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in a thrilling contest. She is the third Australian to win Wimbledon Women's Singles. Prior to Barty, Margaret Court and Ivani Golagong had won the Wimbledon Women's title. She was the Australian woman to win the Grand Slam singles title 41 years later. He won the title on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of winning the Wimbledon tournament of his ideal Golagong. Barty was the 2011 Wimbledon Junior Champion.
Ashley Barty was born on April 24, 1996, in rural North Queensland. Barty's two older sisters, Sarah and Eleanor, are netball players. Ashley Barty also played netball like her sisters in the beginning, but Barty didn't like the game much so she started focusing on tennis.
At the age of four, Barty began regular training at the Brisbane Tennis Academy. Where coach Joyce played a key role in honing Ashley Barty's abilities. She pays close attention to the ball, which makes it easier for her to play shots. "I used to practice hitting the ball on the wall with the racket in my house after returning from school, which helped me to look at the ball," says Barty. At the age of 9, she practiced and dominated with boys 15 years older than her.
Ashley Barty started playing regular boys' matches at the age of 12 and usually came off the court as the winner. At the Under-12 National Tennis Championships in Melbourne, Ashley Barty met her mentor Alicia Mulk for the first time, a former Australian tennis star and bronze medalist in tennis at the Athens Olympics. Alicia Mulk played a key role in training Barty, who she said had extraordinary abilities. He made it clear at an early age that he would be a valuable asset to Australia in the future. Ashley Barty's future is bright and she will be an ideal for the new generation in Australian tennis.
Barty started competing in singles and doubles at the ITF Junior Tennis Circuit in 2009 at the age of 13 and soon began to advance in the junior rankings thanks to her outstanding performance. Barty won the Australian Grade A Australian International Tournament trophy the same year. He won 24 matches in five events of the season. Only two were defeated and three titles were won.
Ashley Barty made her Australian Open junior debut at home in 2011 at the age of 15 but lost her first match to Lorraine Davis. The defeat did not dampen Barty's spirits, but she returned to the court like a wounded tiger and won both the singles and doubles titles at the Sarawak Chief Minister's Cup in Malaysia and the International Junior Championship in Belgium in the next two months.
Ashley Barty won the Junior Wimbledon Grand Slam title at the age of 15. She was the second Australian to win a Wimbledon Junior Trophy since Debbie Freeman, who won the title in 1980. Barty was instrumental in helping Australia win the Junior Fed Cup that year.
Australian tennis star Ashley Barty started professional tennis in 2010 by participating in an ITF tournament in her hometown Upsoch. They had already lost the match. But Barty reached the semifinals of her second professional tournament. Barty's impressive performances led to wild card entries at the 2011 US Open and the 2012 Australian Open.
Unlike singles, Barty excelled in doubles. In 2013, they reached the finals of three Grand Slam doubles with compatriot Delikova, but lost in the first round of the French Open.
Ashley Barty took a break after the 2014 US Open due to a lack of performance in singles because she was tired from traveling too much at a young age. During this time he decided to try his luck in a completely different sport of cricket even though he had no training in cricket. "I want to spend some time as a normal girl and that is not possible during the busy tennis season," he said. At the time, she was not even in the top 200 in the singles rankings.
Ashley Barty became interested in cricket after meeting the Australian women's national cricket team in 2015. She only had experience playing cricket at home with her family and had no experience of competitive cricket. Barty contacted the Queensland Cricket Academy. At the time, Queensland Fire coach Andy Richards was impressed with Ashley Barty's cricketing skills and coached the tennis star's cricket. ۔
He did not miss a single ball in his first batting training session and batted with great confidence. Barty then started playing for the local team Western Suburbs District Cricket Club, which competed in the Brisbane Women's Premier Cricket Tea League.
In his second match, Barty gave an impressive all-round performance for the team, scoring 63 off 60 balls and taking two wickets for 13 runs in four overs. This season, Barty scored 466 runs in 12 matches with the help of a century and three half-centuries and took eight wickets and played a key role in helping the team win the league title. She was the top scorer in the final with 37 runs off 39 balls.
Following Barty's stellar cricketing performances, the Brisbane Heat signed him for the inaugural Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) T20 season. In his first match against the Melbourne Stars, Barty batted aggressively and played an innings of 39 runs off balls. When the cricket season ended in February, Barty announced his return to the tennis court.
Barty did not participate in all four Grand Slam tournaments in 2015 and did not participate in the Australian Open and French Open in 2016. Due to his absence from the tennis circuit, Barty was given a wild card entry for the qualifying round of Wimbledon Open 2016, but Barty was defeated in the second round by Thai player Luxika Kokom. After that, Barty did not participate in the US Open. She was in the top 250 in 2017 and did not advance beyond the third round in any Grand Slam tournament this season. Won the WTA singles title and the doubles title with Casey Delikova. With this, she was included in the top 100 for the first time in her career. She finished 17th in the world at the end of the year based on her outstanding performance for the rest of the season.
The Australian tennis star started the 2018 season confidently and reached the final of the Sydney International where she was defeated by Angelique Kerber. Ashley Barty made it to the Grand Slam Australian Open for the first time as a seeded player in her career but was overpowered by Naomi Osaka in the third round and Barty was defeated by Serena Williams in the second round of the French Open. ۔
Barty won his second title at the Nottingham Open. That same year, she won her first Grand Slam doubles title at the US Open in Wendy Vega's partnership. At the end of the year, Ashley Barty won the WTA Elite Trophy, the biggest victory of her career. With this, she rose to the position of world number 15.
Ashley Barty continued her impressive run in 2019, defeating Maria Sharapova at the Australian Open to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament for the first time, where she was dominated by Peter Cavitova. Ashley Bertie won the French Open singles title, the first Grand Slam title of her career, by beating Markita Vendrosova in the final on a clay court in Paris.
At the same time, she became the world number two. Before Wimbledon, Ashley Barty won the Birmingham Classic Trophy to become the world number one for the first time and also won the WTA Finals.
Ashley Barty was knocked out of the world number one due to a defeat in the first round of the Canadian Open, and Japan's Naomi Osaka retained the position, but she did not hold on to the position for long, and Barty was dismissed four weeks later. Then became the world number one. Named WTA Player of the Year in 2019. She was the first Australian to receive the award. Ashley Barty has consistently held the world number one position ever since. Due to Corona, the WTA had made some changes in the ranking procedure and the ranking was suspended for some time. But even after the resumption of tennis activities, he is still making his mark.
Barty doesn't want to compromise on her preparations for the Australian Open. She is determined to win the first Grand Slam of the New Year, the Australian Open, at home. Barty's best performance in the tournament was reaching the semi-finals in 2020 when she was defeated by Sofia Cannon in a hard-fought semi-final. The organizers had decided not to hold the Wimbledon tournament this year. In the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in 2021, she was defeated by Carolina Mochova of the Czech Republic in a three-set contest.
Ash Barty will make history by winning the John Newcomb Medal for the fourth year in a row. She has won this medal for three consecutive years and has done a hat trick. The award was not held last year due to the corona virus. She was a favorite then and she is a favorite this time around.
This year, Barty has won five trophies, including a Wimbledon singles grand slam. Ashley Barty is the only female player in 2021 to win titles on grass, hard courts and clay courts this year. She will be ranked No. 1 in the world for the third time in a row at the end of the year. The awards ceremony is traditionally held on December 17 each year in which the winners are announced. Australian tennis star Samantha Strauss-Kahn has also won the Newcomb medal four times, but she was not consistent.
Former Fed Cup Australian captain David Taylor says that Ashley Barty is one of the current superstar players in the tennis circuit and she will entertain the fans for a while with her brilliant game. David Taylor has coached former world number one Martina Hingis and Anna Ivanovich.
Taylor says Barty's game is similar to the two players and she dominates rivals because of her strong editorial strength. He has an incredible variety of shots.
Ashley Barty Her fitness and excellent performances indicate that she will be holding the Australian flag high on the tennis court for a long time.
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