Tennis - Australian Open - Third Round - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia - January 24, 2020 Australia's Ashleigh Barty in action during the match against Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Ash Barty was named Young Australian of the Year on Saturday in recognition of her rise to number one in the world and Grand Slam triumph at last year's French Open.
Barty was her country's first number one women's tennis player since her fellow indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1976 when she first reached the top spot in June last year.
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