Ashleigh Barty: World number one misses WTA Finals and ends 2021 season early
World number one Ashleigh Barty ends her season and will not defend her WTA Finals title next month du to the quarantine rules she..
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Ashleigh Barty
Australian tennis player
Ashleigh Barty is an Australian professional tennis player and former cricketer. She is ranked No. 1 in the world in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the second Australian WTA singles No. 1 after fellow Indigenous Australian player Evonne Goolagong Cawley. She has also been a top 10 player in doubles, having achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world. Barty has won thirteen singles titles and eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including two Grand Slam singles titles, the 2019 French Open and 2021 Wimbledon Championships, and one Grand Slam doubles title at the 2018 US Open with partner CoCo Vandeweghe. She is also the reigning champion in singles at the WTA Finals.
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