Prior to her historic Australian Open win, Barty spoke to ‘Vogue’ about being inspired by her mentor, fellow Indigenous athlete Evonne Goolagong Cawley, to create change off the court.
in July last year, she will likely reply that the stars simply aligned. It’s a statement that says a lot about the athlete who hails from Ipswich, west of Brisbane. Humble, matter-of-fact, and down-to-earth.
So it’s little wonder Barty let her emotions flow once the tournament was won. In a post-match interview clutching the famous Venus Rosewater Dish trophy, Barty’s voice caught when asked about the significance of her win. “I hope I made Evonne proud,” she managed to get out in front of the crowd and the world’s media.
Barty was overseas for a six-month stretch in 2021, during which time she won five titles and rounded out her season as number one for the third consecutive year, becoming only the eighth woman in history to do so. Life on tour, she says, was spent in a Covid bubble 90 percent of the time and consisted of traveling from hotels to tennis courts and back again, regardless of the city. She had more than 70 negative tests over that period, allowing her to play.
Like many people overseas, Barty admits “the whole process of trying to get back into Australia was really challenging”, and she was forced to wait weeks for a flight home via London. “I was tossing and turning about what the rest of my season was going to look like and that was a time where I wanted to be home with my family and needed to reset back here [but] I couldn’t get home,” she says. “That was frustrating.
Barty wears a Matteau top, Worn Store pants, Rado Ash Barty limited edition watch, and Mara & Mine shoes.For the past few months, Barty has been relishing the ordinariness of daily life. Walking her three dogs , picking up her niece Lucy from school, having family barbecues, and playing a round of golf against Kissick, a trainee golf professional who Barty met back in 2016.
Being the best version of herself brings Barty back to Evonne Goolagong Cawley, a Wiradjuri woman now aged 70, whom Barty, a descendant of the Ngarigo people of south-eastern New South Wales, has looked to over the course of her career for guidance and advice—both as a tennis player and as a high-profile Indigenous sportswoman.
Off the court, she was also being guided on how to use her influence for good within the wider Indigenous community. Back in 2011, Goolagong Cawley remembers: “Ash came and hit with our Aboriginal kids at the Goolagong National Development Camp on Rod Laver Arena ... My foundation uses tennis as a vehicle to help provide better education and health for Indigenous boys and girls, and Ash asked lots of questions about their lives.
On a personal level, the two women remain close. “She is gifted beyond her peers as a player but works as hard as any of them,” says Goolagong Cawley. “Her open and fun-loving nature is felt by all who follow her on and off the court. There is a joy to her that I recognize and love. She is happy and content but still strives to become an even better human being. In my book, my ‘little sister’ is doing just fine.
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