The miami tournament is in full swing, but the news of Barty's retirement outside the arena has long dominated the headlines of major tennis news sections, retired at the world's first height, and bid farewell to his own years of playing, Barty's decision has shocked many people.
Born in 1996 in Ipswich, Australia, Barty has shown a high level of tennis as early as a teenager, winning the Wimbledon Junior Women's Singles Championship.
In 2014, Barty announced that she would leave the tennis world and play cricket instead, but two years later she announced her comeback, and in the 2017 season, she gradually emerged in the era of WTA blossoms, and Barty's relationship with China began from this year.
Barty first came to China in 2017, when Australian celebrities who had already improved to No.37 in the world ranking competed in the Wuhan Super 5 competition.
In the end, Barty showed excellent competitive form, defeating the No. 5 seed Konta, the No. 9 seed A. Radwanska, the No. 3 seed Ka Pliskova and the No. 8 seed Ostapenko to reach the women's singles final at the highest level of their career at that time.
Somewhat regrettably, Barty was eventually defeated by France's Garcia to finish second in the women's singles at the 2017 Wuhan Open, when li na was the guest of honor.
In 2018, Barty continued to play in the Chinese season, this time she first participated in the Wuhan competition, and finally achieved the women's singles final four (the promotion trip is not short of players like the world's top three Korbel).
Barty then moved to the Zhuhai Classic, known as the end of the year, and this time she finally reached the top, when her opponent in the final was Wang Qiang.
The 2019 season is the third consecutive year that Barty has come to China to compete, when the Australian star is already the world's number one goal, she stopped in the semi-finals in Wuhan, and the Chinese Open reached the women's singles final and finally lost to Naomi Osaka and won the runner-up.
This year's annual drama WTA year-end finals were also held in Shenzhen, and Barty, as the top seed, defeated the TOP10 players four times to win the women's singles championship in the 2019 WTA year-end finals.
According to statistics, Barty has achieved a record of 25 wins and 8 losses in all the competitions in China, including as many as 10 games to beat the top ten players, which is quite a good statistic.
So far, Barty has won 15 singles titles, including three Grand Slam titles at the 2019 French Open, Wimbledon 2021 and Australian Open in 2022.
There is no doubt that Barty's retirement is a loss to the WTA on a certain level, and the girls may be in a "scuffle" again, so who do you think the next leader is? (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)