Ashleigh Barty

Ashleigh Barty is a former cricketer and professional tennis player from Australia. She is a right-handed player. In both women’s singles and doubles, Barty is the top-ranked Australian. She is presently ranked No. 1 in singles and No. 19 in doubles on the WTA rankings. On the WTA Tour, she has won five singles wins and ten doubles titles. In 2010, she went pro. In late 2014, she took an indefinite vacation from tennis before returning in early 2016. She participated in the Women’s Big Bash League during the break.

What is Ashleigh Barty Net Worth?

Ashleigh Barty makes a living as a professional tennis player. To date, she has won $7,366,380 in prize money while playing tennis. Her estimated net worth is $4 million.

What is Ashleigh Barty Famous For?

  • Professional tennis player from Australia.
Tennis Player Ashleigh Barty (Source: The Indian Express)

Where was Ashleigh Barty Born?

On April 24, 1996, Ashleigh Barty was born. Robert Barty, her father, and Josie Barty, her mother, are her parents. Her hometown is Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. She is an Australian citizen. Sara and Ali are her two older sisters. She was born and raised in Springfield. Woodcrest State College was her alma mater.

She began playing tennis when she was four years old. By the age of 12, she was already competing against older males. She used to play netball as a kid.

Junior Career:

  • She attained a career high of No. 2 in the ITF global junior rankings.
  • In 2011, she competed in her first junior Grand Slam event, the Australian Open.
  • At the age of 15, she won her sole Grand Slam title at Wimbledon.
  • She became the first Australian girl to win a junior Grand Slam singles title since Jelena Dokic at the 1998 US Open, and the second Australian female to win the girls’ singles tournament since Debbie Freeman in 1980.
  • In 2011, she won two Grade 1 doubles titles.
  • She and colleague Belinda Woolcock won the Junior Fed Cup title at the end of the season.

Professional Career:

  • In April of 2010, she went pro. She was 14 years old at the time.
  • She defeated Ayu Fani Damayanti in her maiden professional bout.
  • In early 2012, she made her WTA Tour main draw debuts in singles and doubles.
  • At the 2012 Australian Open, she made her Grand Slam draw debut.
  • In both singles and doubles, she won four ITF titles.
  • In doubles, she was ranked No. 129 at the end of 2012.
  • At the Malaysian Open, she won her first two WTA Tour matches.
  • After reaching the Australian Open finals in doubles, she became the youngest Grand Slam finalist since Tatiana Golovin.
  • She and Dellacqua became the first Australian women’s doubles team to reach the final of the Australian Open since Evonne Goolagong and Helen Gourlay in 1977.
  • The Birmingham Classic final was won by her and Dellacqua.
  • She was ranked No. 12 in the world in doubles at the end of the 2013 season.
  • During the clay season, she and Dellacqua won their second title together at the Internationaux de Strasbourg.

Break from Tennis:

  • She declared her retirement from competitive tennis following the 2014 US Open.
  • In early 2015, she met with the Australian women’s national team to discuss her professional athletic background. She was then intrigued by the prospect of playing cricket. She, on the other hand, had no prior competitive cricket experience.
  • In July, she started training with the Queensland Fire Service. In Brisbane’s Women’s Premier Cricket Twenty20 competition, she began playing for the Western Suburbs District Cricket Club.
  • She hit a century, averaged 42.4 runs, and took 8 wickets in 13 matches for Western Suburbs. Western Suburbs won the league’s grand final in the end.
  • She also joined the Heat for the first season of the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) Twenty20 competition. She was a regular member of the squad for the rest of the season, which ended with a 7-7 record.

Return to Tennis:

  • After the WBBL season ended in February 2016, she returned to tennis.
  • She won three of the five doubles competitions she competed in.
  • In late May 2016, she went back to being a single woman.
  • She qualified for the Nottingham Open on the WTA Tour again.
  • She had a bone stress injury in her arm and only competed in one race in November 2016, the 125K Taipei Challenger.
  • In 2017, she won her maiden WTA singles title and broke into the top 100 for the first time.
  • She won her first career top 10 match in Cincinnati, defeating world No. 9 Venus Williams.
  • After reaching the third round of the 2017 US Open, she rose to No. 27 on the WTA rankings.
  • After defeating No. 7 Johanna Konta, No. 4 Karolina Pliskova, and No. 10 Jelena Ostapenko at the Wuhan Open, she rose to No. 23 on the WTA rankings.
  • She and Dellacqua were the first Australian women’s doubles duo to reach the finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments when they reached the finals of the French Open. Throughout the year, the duo made six finals. They won the Birmingham Classic for the second time.
  • She concluded the 2017 season at No. 17 in the world and No. 11 in doubles, both career highs.
  • In 2018, she reached the final of the Sydney International.
  • In 2018, she won the Nottingham Open on grass. In the final, she defeated British No. 1 Konta. It was her second WTA victory of her career.
  • She defeated Wang Qiang in the final of the 2018 WTA Elite Trophy, the biggest championship of her career.
  • She reached a career-high ranking of No. 15 at the end of the 2018 season.
  • At the Australian Open, she and Dellacqua made it to the third round. This was the couple’s final WTA event together. After the tournament, Dellacqua announced his retirement.
  • She won the 2018 Miami Open with her partner, American CoCo Vandeweghe. It was the first Premier Mandatory title for Barty.
  • She won the 2018 Italian Open and the 2018 Canadian Open alongside Demi Schuurs.
  • She reached a career high of No. 5 in the WTA doubles world rankings.
  • She reunited with Vandeweghe and went on to win the US Open for the first time in her career. In the final, they defeated Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.
  • In 2019, she reached the final of the Sydney International, where she was defeated by Petra Kvitova.
  • After her performance in the Australian Open, she climbed to a new career high of No. 14 in the world.
  • She defeated Karolina Pliskova in the Miami Open final for her first career Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 title. She was also included in the top ten.
  • At the 2019 French Open, she became the first woman to reach a Grand Slam final. Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic was defeated in straight sets. Her victory was her first Grand Slam title.

Who is Ashleigh Barty Dating?

Ashley Barty is a single woman. Gary Kissick, a golfer, is her boyfriend.

What are Ashleigh Barty Body measurements?

Ashleigh Barty is 1.66 meters tall, or 5 feet and 5 and a half inches tall. Her body is built for athletics.