Ashleigh Barty, (born April 24, 1996, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia), Australian tennis player who won 15 career singles titles, including three at Grand Slam tournaments, and held the number one spot in the women’s tennis world rankings for 114 consecutive weeks. Barty was born in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, to a father who was a member of the Ngaragu Aboriginal group and a mother who was the daughter of English immigrants. She began playing tennis at the age of five and quickly developed in the sport. By her early teens she had joined the International Tennis Federation junior circuit. She won the
There's at least as much discussion right now about who isn't at the
Australian Open, which got underway at Melbourne Park today, as
opposed to who is.