Ashleigh Barty - Comeback on "A Day at the Drive"
After a break of almost a year, world number one Ashleigh Barty will be back on the court on January 29, 2021. At an exhibition match in Adelaide, which also included Serena Williams , Simona Halep and Naomi Osaka .
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Jan 22, 2021, 08:46 am
The special features of the Corona year 2020 mean that a player who has not played a single match during the entire season has wintered in seventh place in the WTA world rankings: Bianca Andreescu . And the leader in the women's charts has only had a modest workload in the last twelve months: Ashleigh Barty said goodbye to the tennis circus after the semi-final in Doha against Petra Kvitova. And gave yourself the autumn of 2020.
The fact that the now 24-year-old industry leader would only contest the Australian summer as a spectator was of course never up for discussion. And so Barty will finally pick up the bat again at the end of January. And compete with the best of their guild in Adelaide at the exhibition "A Day at the Drive". Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams and Simona Halep will also undergo the first test after the two-week quarantine, while Novak Djokovic , Rafael Nadal , Dominic Thiem and Jannik Sinner compete in the “Memorial Drive Tennis Center”.
Barty could enjoy a competitive advantage: after all, unlike the rest of the participants, she hadn't just arrived in Australia a few days ago. And therefore didn't have to go into isolation. The really big test doesn't start until February 8th with the Australian Open. There Barty reached the semi-finals in 2020, in which she lost to the eventual winner Sofia Kenin . By the way, Kenin, like Andreescu, was hit hard: Both the American and the Canadian are spending their days in strict quarantine. Without the opportunity to train for at least a few hours.