No. 1 Ash Barty not feeling the pressure entering Wimbledon semis
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Ashleigh Barty becomes the first Aussie to reach the Wimbledon semifinals since 2000. (0:38)
LONDON As Ash Barty has made her way through the draw at Wimbledon, her every move has been followed back home in Australia in microscopic detail.
Fifty years after Evonne Goolagong won the first of her two Wimbledon titles, Barty has been front and center in newspapers and on TV and radio broadcasts, each win raising the excitement and expectations.
For some players, that kind of pressure could be suffocating, but for Barty, the world No. 1, it is just part of being a professional. Nothing, it seems, gets to her not the odd bad bounce, not a slippery grass court and not even the hopes of a nation.
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