Full press conference: Ash Barty retires from tennis | FOX Sports Australia

[@camillehill8795]

Barty's retirement is such a lose for women's tennis, but it just shows what a balanced person she is. She looked at her life and made a decision about what she wants at this stage. Good for her. She is a wonderful role model for women (for everyone) in her attitude, behavior, focus and the way she treats everyone with such respect. Ash Barty is such a grateful person and such a gracious, poised speaker in interviews.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

She obviously doesn't care to be considered one of the GOAT by adding to her three Slams.

[@karenthompson9851]

Well said !!

[@leicsbred]

Be nice to hear the questions.

[@vishvice12]

She'll return some day for sure

[@truthvfauxyeshu4068]

Ash Barty is very talented, humble, and intelligent. Her courage to retire at the peak of her career and focus on what is the next best thing --takes a lot of maturity and self-discipline. Well-done job in tennis!

[@HealingBeats777]

An underrated grandslam champion... 😞 NEITHER HYPED by the media and/or the fans...✌🥲💚 Was slowly growing on me as a tennis player, and probably my fave grandslam champ among the "new gen"/"millenial" tennis players... 😞 why, Ash? I hope you come back to tennis someday 😢

[@thelmaalmaden8131]

It a right timing for her, being no1 in the world rather than retiring if she's already at the bottom. It's a right decision and she wanted to fulfill some of her dreams besides tennis. Respect her and Goodluck Ash!

[@carmeldewolfe6050]

Congratulations Ash thank you for everything you have achieved. So proud of you. Wishing you every success and happiness in the future ❤️

[@kenkeneth4964]

One of the best player in the history of tennis, shame but I respect her decision, we all know how fast times is running.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

She only won 3 Slams so she's not even top 20 and what she could have done had she not retired doesn't count.

[@kenkeneth4964]

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 Which of the tennis players having more slams ended her career at the age of 25???

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

@@kenkeneth4964Justine Henin Hardenne retired from Tennis one month before her 26th birthday with 7 slams. Three Slams isn't a lot at 25. Seles had 8 by the age of 19.

[@MrBjorn6]

@@kenkeneth4964 Bjorn Borg ended his career at 25 with 64 titles and 11 Majors

[@kenkeneth4964]

@@MrBjorn6 Woman’s and men’s tennis are two different things.

[@elizabethsoro3421]

Heartbreaking for me, but happy for you, dear Ash.

[@user2144]

Good luck to her

[@santin4338]

I hope Ash comeback and win us open to complete the grand slam someday

[@vanlifeembracingdiversity5431]

She is surreal. No words can describe her aura. So so happy your new adventures 💖

[@budirachman4414]

No.... I can't believe this. I just know her since her comeback from hiatus in 2017. So soon, Ashleigh. I will miss you on court.

[@MoorishBrooklyn]

I'm glad she is in a good space and ready for the next chapters in her life.

[@longinusgalaxy411]

I dont think she coming back. Good luck Barty. And God Bless!!!

[@seadrifter8975]

Good luck to her she was a great player,, she will always have tv/media work as an option if she chooses ? Reminds me of Borg retiring at 26

[@carmeldewolfe6050]

God bless you Ash you are and always will be inspirational and a wonderful role model Wishing you every happiness in all you do ❤️❤️👍☘️

[@flaviusmersan4110]

So Iga will be no1, next week? Damn 👍🏻💪🏻

[@benthekeeshond545]

What the hell is going on with Barty? Lately, one tennis player doesn't deserves to be in professional tennis and Barty is not the one who is supposed to retire Tennis needs to have players like Barty.

[@sportsmediaamerica]

The lady has the maturity of a person twice her age. But no one asked her about the US Open, the one major she did not win. No desire to complete the career slam , and THEN retire??

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

She's not an ambitious tennis player.

[@pawshands9706]

The sports world should pay very close attention. Ash is a wonderful player with a unique sense of self. She realizes that the sport is like a constrictor, and she is walking away because of the demands forced on her. Good luck Ash. I hope we get to see you again soon.

[@yeongeunkim3241]

애쉬, 언제 어디서든 행복해!! ❤️

[@waynereardon]

Women's tennis is in massive trouble with Ash gone. I've just looked at the list of the top 50 players, and beside Miss Barty, there are only 2 or 3 other names I recognise. I don't recognise one other name in the top 10. I have a feeling that Ash will come back one day. She's still so young, and a couple of years off training and persistently being so single-minded might make her hungry again. I'm so happy she has Wimbledon under her belt. I reckon that's the big one. Good luck, Ash!

[@Comatosedpeanut]

You obviously don't watch enough tennis mate. 2 of bartys 3 slams came in the lastt 12 months, the top ten always changes in women's tennis.

[@waynereardon]

@@Comatosedpeanut so does the top 50, but it doesn't change the fact that most of the women are unknown outside of the tennis world. I just had a look at the men's top 50, and recognise at least a dozen names there. Tennis needs to do more to promote itself as a sport in general, which should be easy these days, given most parents no longer want their kids playing contact sports. Have a look at the WTA rankings from 2000. There's at least 20 women in there who were household names, and some who were absolute superstars. Tennis is boring now.

[@Comatosedpeanut]

@@waynereardon plenty of women in the top 20 I know of, I think you just don't watch much women's tennis tbh. Swiatek is pretty good, so is Osaka.

[@Comatosedpeanut]

@@waynereardon tennis has people like kyrgios, but people like you say he's out of line, then call tennis boring lol

[@waynereardon]

@@Comatosedpeanut when did I say Kyrgios was out of line? People like you assume too much. lol. No, I don't currently watch much tennis, because not many of the players interest me. That's my point. If they were interesting, they would be household names like half the players used to be.

[@kingmarky5779]

She seems happy that's all the matters but I'm gunna missed her

[@senthilkumar-bu9rp]

Swistek became new world number one yesterday... Sad that Barty retired

[@chinyerephoebe764]

I don't know why I feel there's something more for her retirement.

[@graemekeeley4497]

Ash Barty was never the one to be ungracious about anything. But the recent Melbourne cup in which Ash became the local hero For her, the Cup which descended into a circus was one of the things that fed into her decision to retire

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

What's the Melbourne Cup?

[@J-M-Rock]

Oh man! Ash Barty! Congratulations 👏 on your retirement. You got engaged 💍 and we are looking forward to see little Ash Barty babies on the tennis courts ❤ Next up... Osaka because of emotions Halep to start her own family 👪 Ka Pliskova to start her own family 👪 Angie Kerber to start her own family 👪 WELL IT IS LIFE.

[@ASawa-il2wg]

Ashley hope you will come back...

[@sajibmukherjee9631]

Such pure class.. Massive respect. For me she is the greatest WTA player to have played this sport on her own terms and dominate it on her own terms.

[@donyutejamaica631]

@Sajib greatest WTA player!?! What?!? Stop it! BS..Put down the crack pipe!!

[@sajibmukherjee9631]

@@donyutejamaica631 Whats your problem?

[@teresalopez3476]

No pude ser!!!!! 😔, a quien voy a ver, jugar ahora????😔

[@anneshaw9681]

Too many sports people regret retiring too early and she had a couple of years off playing cricket.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

She became a much better tennis player after taking two years off.

[@anneshaw9681]

Bit sad. She only has one chance in life. Bad decision that she will regret. She could have played till she was 28 odd. Give the money to charity.

[@billchang3010]

I hate majority of press conferences Sport / Politics as you can't bloody hear the questions asked by the journalists. The organiser should have organised one central microphone & the jounos should line up behind the Mike😡😈👿. A waste of time, sack the Communications Mgr./ Organiser.

[@trebell885]

I'd like 2pay Mii respects 2past present & future Champ's such as #1. Ash Barty! Best of joy, Laughter, life&Love 2u & All yo family 🌻.

[@johnanderson8385]

Only top player with a brain. Not mindless ball bashing. Kinda frumpy, but a good player.

[@stevesalkas533]

Gr8 players play on till there 30s got enough money retire time now lol

[@darrenroberson137]

Hello guess who

[@awatarwahab7471]

👍👍👍

[@chowchichang2922]

She might come back after the pandemic is over ….

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

The Pandemic will never be over

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

The journalists are giving Barty Softball Questions. Why don't they ask her: how could you be Physically Spent at the young age of 25? I don't buy it.

[@donyutejamaica631]

@Jefferey, agree with you 100%! The journalists are beating around the bush and not asking real questions! Retiring at age 25 just like that..about to hit her prime, is very strange. Something mental going on..

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

@@donyutejamaica631 When she won the French Open she asked her Coach:" Can I retire now"? I'm guessing she doesn't enjoy spending most of her time just doing one thing. She won a Golf Tournament in Australia during Covid so she might get into that Sport. She is naturally very gifted and she wants to see how far she can go in her next Sport. When she gets tired of that she'll go back to playing Tennis again I hope.

[@margueritephillips3920]

Good morning if ash want to go that a right with me I love her she is a cut above the rest you all must remember she a life and a family she will be soon having babies laught.

[@Dangit-Dangit]

Doesn't pass the smell test.

[@ManiM-km9bp]

God bless East India company British rule ❤️ abolished many cruel slaveries that existed in Tamil Nadu india 🙏🙏🙏🙏 for example,,in the year 1934 a British collector issued 1,.2 million agriculture lands to socially untouchable people ,,One needs to go back a hundred years to understand what was owed to the community, that gave a ray of hope, only to be snatched away abruptly. In 1892, J.H.A. Tremenheere, the British District Collector of Chengalpattu , submitted his extensive report on living conditions of Paraiyars (a caste under Scheduled Castes) titled “Notes on the Pariahs of Chingleput”.1 The report carried detailed studies of the deprivation that the community was living through, and ended with policy recommendations to the government in Madras Presidency in order to improve their living conditions. One of it was to give plots of ‘waste’ lands to the Depressed Classes, including Dalits. In September 1892, the Madras Presidency passed the orders to assign plots conditionally to members of the community. Conditions dictated that these plots could not be transferred to any person who is not a member of Scheduled Castes through sale, gift, mortgage or lease. It is said that up until 1934, land in the order of 1.2 million acres was assigned to members of the community and such plots are known as Panchami Land. In particular, Panchama means the fifth, which can be taken to refer to the the place attributed to ‘Untouchables’ outside the varna system. Hence, the land for Panchamas was named Panchami. Thank you Jesus for East India company 🙏🙏👍👍👍 The social structure of caste in India is rooted in the Varna system which segregates the Hindu society hierarchically into four Varnas namely, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. The Panchamars or “untouchables” (present day Dalits) are placed below the category of Shudras and exist outside the four fold Varna system. The ideology of caste is based on the notions of purity and pollution. The Panchamars1 were considered the lowest in the society and apart from serving the upper caste landlords they were assigned common duties like removing dead cattle, cleaning drainage, and played a pivotal role in death and funeral ceremonies. Due to the nature of their work they were considered “untouchables” and lived in the fringes of the village. Denied access to mainstream society, their very sight was believed to cause pollution. “Untouchables” were expected to tie an earthen pot round their neck so that their sputum did not fall to the ground and pollute the atmosphere. But British lands to them was to make them land Lords and live with dignity and respect 👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏