Ashleigh Barty

It came out of the blue but, on reflection, may not have been the biggest surprise in tennis. Ashleigh Barty, the world No1 for the…

Ashleigh Barty is an Australian former tennis player. She won her first grand slam title at the French Open in 2019, and announced her retirement…

Wherever world No1 Ashleigh Barty plays her special brand of creative and crafty tennis, she is admired and cheered. But in Australia, the love and…

The task for world No51 Madison Keys was a monumental one. She would take on Ashleigh Barty, who arrived in Melbourne with 112 weeks clocked…

Ash Barty and Amanda Anisimova had met only once before, back in the semis of the French Open in 2019. The tall and powerful Anisimova…

The top quarter, indeed the top half, of the women’s draw in Australia this year always promised at be a tough run for those with…

It would be the fairy-tale ending to this year’s Australian Open if the world No1 came through the entire draw to lift the women’s trophy.…

Sydney has already opened the floodgates as tennis launches into another new season: Not a day of 2022 would be wasted as the ATP Cup…

It is the oh-so-short break between one tennis season and the next, the month or so when the media are alive with selections of ‘the…

Ashleigh Barty and Katerina Siniakova have secured the 2021 WTA year-end No1 singles and doubles rankings, the WTA have announced. This is the third year…

There is certainly reason to celebrate the last and biggest Major of 2021, the US Open, when it welcomes a full complement of fans to…

It is a rare and highly prized sporting accolade, and because the opportunity to win Olympic gold only comes around every four years, the chance…

The 128 had become two, and while previous Wimbledon champions fell out of contention, and all but one previous Major champion went the same way,…

Much has been made in the last couple of years about the breadth and depth of quality in women’s tennis. The last nine Majors, dating…

It is always a tough turn-around for the women who make it through to the last eight at Wimbledon. For they all know that they…

It is a day like no other in tennis, the result of an old tradition of no play on middle Sunday. Grass, the original and…

It was a blow, and no mistake. Defending champion Simona Halep had waited two years to come back to London’s lawns, and was practising already,…

One name that took to the magnificent Manolo Santana court for the first semi-final of the prestigious Mutua Madrid Open was certainly very familiar to…

With half a dozen clay tournaments done and dusted in the women’s tennis calendar, the time had come for one of the biggest, the first…

World No1 Ash Barty did not leave her home soil of Australia from the moment tennis went into lockdown in March 2020 until the long,…

The first quarter of 2021 is done and dusted, a quarter during which tennis began, albeit with many constraints, to resemble its usual self after…