Australian player Ashleigh Barty - aged only 25 - says she will retire to 'chase other dreams'.
World number one Ashleigh Barty has shocked the sporting world by announcing she will retire from professional tennis at just 25.
"I'm so happy and I'm so ready. And I just know at the moment in my heart, for me as a person, this is right," she said in a video.This was backed up by success at Wimbledon last year. "I wasn't sure how to share this news with you so I asked my good friend [retired Australian tennis player Casey Dellacqua] to help me," Barty said on Wednesday."Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way, I'll always be grateful for the lifelong memories we created together."Barty added she was "absolutely spent" and "physically I have nothing more to give".
Women's Tennis Association head Steve Simon said Barty was "one of the great champions" and would be missed.
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