Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh Barty ( born April 24, 1996, Ipswich, Queensland ) is an Australian tennis player.
- 3.1 Individual
- 3.2 double
Career
Already in her second ITF tournament in Mount Gambier in October 2010 Barty succeeded the semi-finals. In 2011 she won the junior competition at Wimbledon. In the same season they also reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open in the Junior Women. In December, they still earned a wild card for the upcoming Australian Open.
Early 2012 failed Barty at the WTA tournament in Brisbane in the qualifying clearly with 1:6, 2:6 to Vania King. Also in Hobart she was eliminated in the qualification - 2:6, 2:6 against Bethanie Mattek -Sands. At the Australian Open she lost in round 1 against Georgian Anna Tatischwili. In February and March, she won two ITF tournaments in series, first on hard court in Sydney, then without dropping a set on grass in Mildura. In mid-March it was in the final of the clay court tournament of Ipswich. Also at the French Open, she went to a wild card and lost in the first round against the seeded Petra Kvitová 4 later semi-finalist.
In the WTA tournament in Brisbane in 2012 before she came in doubles with her compatriot Casey Dellacqua to the semifinals. At the Australian Open in 2013, the two were then for the first time in the final of a Grand Slam tournament, but they had to the Italian Sara Errani Topdoppel / Roberta Vinci in three sets to admit defeat. When grass tournament in Birmingham she won her first WTA title together, for Barty it was the first on the tour at all. At Wimbledon, Barty / Dellacqua reached also the final, where they were subject to Hsieh Su -wei and Peng Shuai after a hard-fought first set ( tiebreak ) in two sets.