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‘The hardest thing I’ve ever done’:Ash Barty on her second set as a mother
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‘The hardest thing I’ve ever done’:Ash Barty on her second set as a mother

Her fruitful pro tennis career behind her,Ash Barty is now being served some different challenges.

  • byKonrad Marshall
‘Wicked’ and dizzyingly expensive:The guide to making an Australian tennis champion

‘Wicked’ and dizzyingly expensive:The guide to making an Australian tennis champion

Teenager Roisin Gilheany is on the path to becoming a professional tennis player. To get to where she is now took an almighty effort and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  • byMarc McGowan
It’s a boy:Ash Barty announces the arrival of her baby

It’s a boy:Ash Barty announces the arrival of her baby

Australian tennis great and one of the country’s favourite athletes Ash Barty has had a baby boy.

  • byScott Spits
The Most Influential Women in Australian Sport:The top 10

The Most Influential Women in Australian Sport:The top 10

For International Women’s Day,we have chosen the top 50 most influential women in Australian sport. Here are numbers 10 to one.

  • byChloe Saltau
Barty,Beachley and Pickles:Meet Australian surfing’s next big thing

Barty,Beachley and Pickles:Meet Australian surfing’s next big thing

Ash Barty has her memorabilia hanging up at home and Layne Beachley tipped her for big things at age 14. Meet Molly Picklum,the first non-Hawaiian woman to conquer the Pipeline Masters.

  • byDan Walsh
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Why the ghost of Ash Barty still lingers over women’s tennis

Why the ghost of Ash Barty still lingers over women’s tennis

The Australian is happily retired and preparing for parenthood but,on the eve of the Australian Open,a chief weapon of the defending champion still frightened the life out of world No.1 Iga Swiatek.

  • byCourtney Walsh
The juggle:How tennis stars balance babies with grand slams

The juggle:How tennis stars balance babies with grand slams

For female athletes,the prime of their careers often collides with peak fertility. So how hard is it to plan their families,not to mention to get back to the top after having babies?

  • byCourtney Walsh
Net zero:Zverev’s bid to serve the planet
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Net zero:Zverev’s bid to serve the planet

The German tennis star has used an injury lay-off to conceive an environmental makeover for him and his entourage.

  • byNoel Towell
Open hearts:Indigenous kids bring joy for Barty,Goolagong Cawley

Open hearts:Indigenous kids bring joy for Barty,Goolagong Cawley

Australian tennis royalty was on show at Melbourne Park on Wednesday as two of the country’s greatest players,Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Ash Barty,came together to for a special cause.

  • byScott Spits
‘I can see it in her eyes’:Barty backs Gadecki as search for the next Ash continues

‘I can see it in her eyes’:Barty backs Gadecki as search for the next Ash continues

The Ash Barty era in Australian tennis was great while it lasted,but after her retirement,who is the next great female hope of the nation? The retired champion sees something special in the Australian wildcard who pulled off a first-round upset.

  • byCourtney Walsh