On March 23, the australian star Barty, who is now the world's first and three Grand Slam title holders in the women's tennis world, suddenly announced his retirement on social media! This news is somewhat unexpected, after all, Barty, who is not yet 26 years old, is in the year of the game, and has won three Grand Slam titles in three years, the French Open, Wimbledon and the Australian Open, and has occupied 114 consecutive weeks (a total of 121 weeks) in the world's first position, becoming the fourth person in the history of the WTA. Who would have thought that it was such a top master of age and status, who was in the middle of the day, but suddenly said goodbye, which was really puzzling.
In fact, this is not the first time that Barty has retired in his career, as early as 2014, at the age of 18, Barty announced that he retired from tennis and switched to cricket. But two years later, she returned to the tennis court and won her first professional Grand Slam title, the French Open, in 2019. Later, at Wimbledon 2021 and the Australian Open at the beginning of this year, Barty won consecutive titles. Looking back at barty's career report card, in addition to the 3 Grand Slam titles, there are 12 tour singles titles and 12 doubles titles, and the total prize amount has reached $23.82 million.
As for Barty's psychological state, she had expressed the idea of leaving after winning the Wimbledon championship last year, and after winning the Australian Open earlier this year, she was more determined to retire. So in her retirement speech, Barty talked about the joy and achievements that tennis has brought her, and the dreams that should be realized have been realized, from Wimbledon to the Australian Open, especially at the beginning of this year, winning the championship at home should be the best time for her career to say goodbye. So Barty is looking forward to a new phase, to be able to start a new journey, not as a tennis player.
In fact, looking at the situation of women's tennis Grand Slam winners in recent years, there are some worries and fears, four-time Grand Slam winner, Japanese star Naomi Osaka bluntly said that she suffered from depression, so she could not focus all her energy on the event, last year's Refusal to attend the press conference and the final withdrawal during the French Open showed the seriousness of the problem she faced. And the 18-year-old dark horse of the United Kingdom, radukanu, a Chinese tennis girl who won the US Open championship last year, also suffered from a state of ups and downs, and even some people questioned whether she would be short-lived.
In the current women's tennis world, there is still a state of no long-term hegemony, not to mention the top ten, or even the top twenty players, may win the Grand Slam championship, each of them faces their own problems, to see who can self-regulate, solve to the best state, to avoid the recurrence of various unexpected situations like Barty and Naomi Osaka. Of course, athletes are also people, and what affects them is not only on and off the field, but also on personal families, emotional and private lives, etc., bless Barty, looking forward to one day, she can return again.