Ashleigh Barty has set another target she wants to achieve in the next few weeks after winning her second career Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2021.
The world number 1 beat Czech Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 in the 2021 Wimbledon final, a win that saw her emulate her idol and Australian tennis legend, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who won the Grand Slam title. it was in the 1971 season.
Now the 25-year-old will compete in the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for July 23 – August 8 with the aim of joining Steffi Graf (1988), Venus Williams (2000) and Serena Williams (2012) as the women’s tennis player in the Open Era. won a Grand Slam title in London and an Olympic gold medal in women’s singles in the same season.
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“To be able to represent Australia at the Olympics will be an amazing experience and it is important to celebrate in the years to come the fact that we achieved something truly special at Wimbledon,” Ashleigh Barty told Australian media.
“I have many other goals, dreams that are in the mind of me and my team. We will of course rearrange that in the near future, enjoy some time together, then we start working hard again. But I’m really looking forward to the Olympics.”
The tennis player who won her first Grand Slam title at the 2019 French Open said it was a miracle when she even got a chance to compete in London after a hip injury forced her to withdraw from the second round of the French Open this season against Poland’s Magda Linette after playing fourth game in the second set.
“In the last six weeks, I cried a lot. It’s mostly because of the sadness of what happened at the French Open and now I’m enjoying the joy and the joy and how things have changed,” said Barty, who has lost two sets at Wimbledon this season, in the first round and the final.
“We hoped that after the French Open there would be a chance to win another trophy and we found that at Wimbledon.”
