FILE PHOTO: Tennis - A Day at the Drive Exhibition - Memorial Drive Tennis Club, Adelaide, Australia - January 29, 2021 Australia’s Ashleigh Barty reacts during an interview after her match against Romania’s Simona Halep REUTERS/Morgan Sette
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Even by the standards of 2020, pictures of Ash Barty cradling a beer at a football match in Brisbane while her tour rivals battled for French Open glory would have been hard to reconcile for some tennis fans.
Perhaps even harder to fathom was that the Australian would finish the year world number one despite declining to play anywhere after reaching the semi-finals in the Qatar Open in February.
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