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World No.1 Ash Barty retires
Tennis legend Ash Barty has announced her sudden resignation from the sport today. Here's some of her career highlights.
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Ash Barty with her first trophy as a kid.Credit:Supplied
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Ash kisses the trophy after beating Russian player Irina Khromacheva during the Girls' Singles final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship in 2011.Credit:Getty Images
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Ash posed for photos before going to the US Open in 2016.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Barty celebrates winning the French Open tennis tournament against Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic in two sets 6-1, 6-3, at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris in 2019. That win sent her to the number one ranking in the world.Credit:Christophe Ena
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Barty shares words with former Australian tennis ace Rod Laver at Roland Garros after winning her first major at the French Open in 2019. Credit:Pavel Golovkin
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Kissing her first major trophy at the French Open in 2019. It would mark the start of her reign over the women's tennis rankings.Credit:Getty Images
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Celebrating winning Wimbledon in 2021.Credit:Getty Images
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The moment Barty realises that she has just won Wimbledon.Credit:AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
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Summit reached and a lifelong dream fulfilled. Barty kisses the women's Wimbledon Open trophy last year.Credit:Getty Images
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Barty shows off the Venus Rosewater Dish trophy to the adoring crowd at Wimbledon.Credit:POOL
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Barty let's it all out as she wins the 2022 Australian Open. The first Australian woman to win it since Chris O'Neil in 1978.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Posing with the Australian Open Women's championship trophy and her idol and Australian tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who made the surprise presentation.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Amazing Indigenous women. Cathy Freeman, Ash Barty and Evonne Goolagong Cawley.Credit:Scott Barbour
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Barty outside the Royal Exhibition Building on the morning after winning the Daphne Akhurst trophy.Credit:Scott McNaughton
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Barty appears at the AIA announcement at the Kooyong tennis club in February.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Barty plays tennis with Mutitjulu school students in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, in February.Credit:Scott Barbour/Tennis Australia
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Posing with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup as she visited Uluru in February.Credit:Scott Barbour
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Announcing her retirement via social media today.Credit:Instagram
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Thumbs up as Barty acknowledges a well won point by her opponent Jessica Pegula at the Australian Open 2022.Credit:Eddie Jim