Barty answers wild sporting comeback question

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Former satellite No.1 Ash Barty has emphatically ruled retired ever making a comeback to tennis, oregon switching to different sport.

Launching her autobiography astatine Melbourne Park — country of her Australian Open triumph successful January conscionable 2 months earlier her daze status announcement — the 26-year-old said she had nary tendency to instrumentality to high-level sport, and was definite she ne'er would.

“Nope, I’m done,” Barty told Australian Associated Press connected Monday.

“You tin ne'er accidental never, but no. No, no, no. I’m done.”

The three-time expansive slam singles winner, who spent 121 weeks with the apical ranking, had played nonrecreational cricket with the Brisbane Heat during a hiatus from tennis.

She besides plays play disconnected a handicap of four, prompting immoderate observers to suggest she could prosecute a aboriginal successful that sport.

But, launching her memoir, “My Dream Time", Barty insisted she was blessed with her new, much settled beingness disconnected the WTA Tour, and had nary nonrecreational sports program successful mind.

“I miss competing and challenging myself against the champion of the satellite but I don’t miss a batch that comes with it,” she said.

“I’m inactive competitory with myself erstwhile I bid astatine home. I inactive effort and propulsion myself but there’s nary white-line fever immoderate more.

“And I ne'er truly felt similar determination was this void that needed to beryllium filled successful due to the fact that determination was a genuine consciousness of fulfillment astatine the extremity of my career."

Barty, who joined long-time spouse Garry Kissick successful July, said she was unsure what her aboriginal held, though she was already enjoying mentoring young players — thing which could constituent to a aboriginal relation arsenic Australian Billie Jean King Cup (formerly Fed Cup) captain.

She said that erstwhile she walked distant from tennis for the archetypal clip successful 2014, she was “searching... searching for stimulation, I was searching for different things.

“But present I don’t request that. Now I person astir apt understood and realised that I’ve had an highly full, fulfilling, unthinkable travel successful my diversion and nonrecreational vocation and present it’s clip to adjacent that chapter."

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