Twelve months on from her historic Australian Open win, the retired former world number one is back in familiar surroundings as she joins Evonne Goolagong Cawley in launching the tournament's First Nations Day.
abc.net.au/news/australian-open-ash-barty-returbs-to-launch-first-nations-day/101867130Ash Barty has delighted tennis fans and children with a return to Melbourne Park to launch First Nations Day at the Australian Open.She said it was "nice to be back" at the Australian OpenA year after breaking the country's 44-year Australian Open singles title drought
, Barty was back — not on Rod Laver Arena but the neighbouring Margaret Court Arena — hitting with the First Nations ballkid squad. With no top-100-ranked locals in the 2023 Australian Open women's singles draw, officials would have loved to have had Barty defending her crown.
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