Look back at 2022: the WTA season in pictures

We did not know it when she lifted the trophy, but this would be the last title of Ashleigh Barty’s career. In a video posted on social media on 23rd March, the player from Ipswich announced her retirement after this fifteenth singles title. “To be able to win Wimbledon, which was my dream, my one true dream that I wanted in tennis, that really changed my perspective. I just had that gut feeling after Wimbledon and had spoken to my team quite a lot about it. There was just a little part of me that wasn’t quite satisfied […] And then came the challenge of the Australian Open and I think that, for me, just feels like the most perfect way, my perfect way,” she emotionally confided to her friend, Casey Dellacqua.