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Australia’s Ashleigh Barty, who retired from skilled tennis final yr after profitable the Australian Open, has introduced on Instagram she is pregnant.
“2023 set to be the most effective yr but. We’re so excited for our new journey,” she wrote on Friday, posting an image of her canine Origi and a pair of child sneakers. “Origi already the protecting huge sister.”
In March, Barty shocked the tennis world by asserting she was retiring from the game at age 25 whereas ranked No. 1 on the planet. She had received three main singles titles – the 2019 French Open, 2021 Wimbledon and the 2022 Australian Open.
Barty was the one the second reigning world No.1 within the girls’s recreation to retire on the prime, following Justine Henin, who retired in 2008.
The Australian began her skilled tennis profession in 2010 however took a break from the game from 2014 to 2016, saying “it was an excessive amount of too shortly.”
Solely 18 on the time, she wished to “expertise life as a standard teenage woman,” she mentioned.
She had returned to tennis full-time in 2017 and went on to dominate the game, profitable 25 of her final 26 matches.
Earlier this week, Barty introduced she can be returning to Melbourne Park for this yr’s Australian Open to mentor native hope Olivia Gadecki.
World No. 202 Gadecki, who acquired a wildcard for the yr’s first grand slam, mentioned on the United Cup in Sydney that Barty can be in her camp for the event that runs between January 16-29.
