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Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty announces surprise retirement after Australian Open win

Ashleigh Barty is calling it a career.

The Australian star announced on Instagram on Tuesday night that she is retiring from tennis, just two months after her win at the Australian Open.

“I’m so happy and I’m so ready and I just know at the moment, in my heart for me as a person, this is right,” Barty said in an interview with Casey Dellacqua. “I know I’ve done this before, but in a very different feeling. I’m so grateful to everything that tennis has given me. It’s given me all of my dreams, plus more.