Record shattered as Barty wins special gong

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Ash Barty created different portion of past by becoming the archetypal idiosyncratic to triumph a 5th Newcombe Medal astatine the Australian Tennis Awards connected Monday night.

The erstwhile satellite No.1 was presented the highest idiosyncratic honour successful Australian tennis by John Newcombe astatine Melbourne's Crown Palladium, successful designation of a breathtaking summertime headlined by her Australian Open triumph.

Barty carved retired an undefeated Australian summer, registering 11 singles and 4 doubles victories.

After breezing done the Adelaide International singles draw, the Queenslander combined with Storm Hunter to cod the doubles crown.

Barty past won each acceptable of her Australian Open run to go the big nation's archetypal women's singles champion successful 44 years.

"This has evidently been a precise large twelvemonth successful my vocation and successful my life," said Barty, who retired from nonrecreational tennis successful March.

"We've had exceptional change, we've had an astonishing twelvemonth of celebrating a travel of not lone myself, but my team, and determination is truthful overmuch to beryllium arrogant of.

"I basal present precise proudly knowing that I perfectly fulfilled each ounce that I could to this beauteous athletics that brought maine truthful overmuch much than I could person ever dreamt."

'I'm truthful lucky'

Barty bushed six Newcombe Medal nominees to the prestigious award: Hunter, Ajla Tomljanović, Nick Kyrgios, Alex de Minaur, Matt Ebden and Max Purcell.

Barty's record-breaking Newcombe Medal win came astir 9 months aft her status announcement astatine the property of 25 blindsided the tennis world.

"There are truthful galore radical down the scenes that assistance maine and allowed maine to unrecorded retired my imagination and to observe what it felt similar to enactment hard and truly pursuit aft thing you love," Barty said.

"I'm truthful grateful to everything that tennis has fixed me; it's fixed maine each of my dreams, positive more."

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