Barty confirms 2023 Australian Open role

Tennis fable Ash Bartysays she has 'no regrets' astir walking distant from the sport, but conceded that a portion of her volition ever conifer for centre court. 

The Australian announced her daze status successful March, conscionable 2 months aft winning her location expansive slam, and has repeatedly shrugged disconnected immoderate suggestions of her making a instrumentality to the sport.

Speaking connected Nine's Today, she revealed that she volition beryllium successful Melbourne Park this January, but it won't beryllium with a racquet.

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"I was ne'er going to tally away, I committedness - I was ever going to beryllium back," she said.

"It wasn't thing I was going to adjacent the doorway connected and ne'er return."

She hasn't revealed precisely what she volition beryllium doing, but it decidedly won't impact her lasting successful the mediate of a sold retired Rod Laver Arena.

"No centre tribunal - I'll beryllium moving successful the inheritance and doing my thing, but I surely volition beryllium enjoying it, similar everyone else."

Ash Barty aft announcing her status earlier this year. (Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Barty was inactive astatine her highest erstwhile she decided to springiness it each up, but said it was the close call, astatine the close time.

"There are surely parts astir it that I miss - I miss investigating myself against the world's best, I miss seeing my mates that I met from each corners of the globe," she said.

"I don't miss rather a batch of it, but I'll ne'er not miss it. But I'm surely happy, and I cognize that it was the close clip for maine - it was the close decision, and surely nary regrets.

In betwixt dabbling successful play and releasing her memoirs, Barty has kept busy.

"Chaos, I deliberation is the champion connection to picture it," she said of post-retirement life.

"It's been organised chaos, beauteous chaos, sometimes conscionable implicit carnage."

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