The 21st century
Australia · born Ipswich, Queensland, 1996 · Wimbledon girls' champion 2011 · Wimbledon champion 2021
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6-3, 6-7, 6-3
2021 Wimbledon final against KarolÃna PlÃÅ¡ková
13
Points in a row to open that final
35-9
Career singles record on grass
50
Years after Goolagong's first Wimbledon title
121
Weeks as world No. 1
Born in Ipswich, Queensland, in 1996, Barty is of the Ngarigo people through her great-grandmother. She won the Wimbledon girls' singles at 15 and in 2013 reached three major doubles finals with Casey Dellacqua, then stepped away from tennis from September 2014 to February 2016, playing cricket for the Brisbane Heat in the first Women's Big Bash League. Back on tour with Craig Tyzzer as coach, she won the 2019 French Open, reached world No. 1 that June and held the ranking for 121 weeks in all. She won Wimbledon in 2021, took Olympic mixed doubles bronze in Tokyo with John Peers and won the 2022 Australian Open. On 23 March 2022, aged 25 and still No. 1, she announced her retirement.
| Wimbledon singles | Champion 2021 as top seed. First round 2012 and 2017, third round 2018, fourth round 2019. Match record 12-4 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon final | 2021: beat KarolÃna PlÃÅ¡ková 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3, the first Australian woman to win since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 |
| Other grass titles | Nottingham 2018, beat Johanna Konta 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Birmingham 2019, beat Julia Görges 6-3, 7-5, before reaching world No. 1 on 24 June |
| Other grass final | Birmingham 2017, lost to Petra Kvitová 6-4, 3-6, 2-6 |
| Wimbledon girls' singles | 2011, aged 15, beat Irina Khromacheva 7-5, 7-6 (3) |
| Doubles on grass | With Casey Dellacqua: Wimbledon runner-up 2013, lost to Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai 6-7 (1), 1-6; Birmingham champions 2013 and 2017 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Women's singles | |
| Birmingham | ||
| 2013 | Women's doubles | with Casey Dellacqua |
| 2017 | Women's doubles | with Casey Dellacqua |
| 2019 | Women's singles | |
| Nottingham | ||
| 2018 | Women's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I hope I made Evonne proud."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon 2011
Her first Wimbledon title came a decade before her second. At 15 she won the girls' singles, beating Irina Khromacheva 7-5, 7-6 (3) in the final. It was the only junior major she won. As a senior she did not win a main-draw singles match at Wimbledon until 2018, three years before the title.
Source: WikipediaBrisbane Heat · 2015
She stepped away from tennis in September 2014 and turned to cricket. With no formal training she signed for the Brisbane Heat for the first Women's Big Bash League and made 39 off 27 balls on debut against the Melbourne Stars. She was back on the tennis tour in February 2016.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2021
Her Wimbledon dress, designed with Fila, had a floral, scalloped hem echoing the Ted Tinling dress made for Evonne Goolagong Cawley. "Evonne is a very special person in my life," Barty said, and she hoped her version would inspire Indigenous children as Goolagong had. The outfit is now in the National Museum of Australia, shown beside a Tinling dress.
Source: National Museum of AustraliaWimbledon 2021 · Final
She won the first 13 points of the final against KarolÃna PlÃÅ¡ková and led 4-0. PlÃÅ¡ková fought back to take the second set on a tie-break, but Barty broke early in the third and served it out. "It took me a long time to verbalise, to dare to dream it and say it," she said.
Source: The NationalBrookwater · 2020
With the tour stopped and rankings frozen by the pandemic, she turned to golf and in September 2020 won the club championship at Brookwater Golf and Country Club. Her husband, Garry Kissick, whom she married in 2022, is a professional golfer.
Source: WikipediaMarch 2022
She announced her retirement in an Instagram video with her old doubles partner Casey Dellacqua, aged 25 and with 114 consecutive weeks at No. 1 behind her. Wimbledon, she explained, had been "my one true dream that I wanted in tennis", and once it was won her outlook changed.
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