Barty : power and glory : the inspiring journey to the top of world tennis
Reed, Ron2019
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For a variety of reasons, Australian sport needed an uplifting, inspirational, feel-good story in 2019. The year was only little more than half over before one had well and truly arrived - one of the best ever, in fact. Tennis star Ashleigh Barty captured the public's imagination and admiration by not only winning a major tournament for the first time, the French Open, and ascending to the world No 1 ranking, the fi rst Australian woman to do so for 46 years, but by the humble, modest, gracious and yet iron-willed and fiercely focussed way she went about it. In all she did, she was the definition of the word classy. In short, she made Australia proud. Among those watching intently was one of Australia's most experienced and respected sportswriters, Ron Reed, who decided that Barty's breakthrough into the very top echelons of one of the nation's favourite sports needed to be recorded in forensic detail - the wins, the quotes, the processes, the reactions of others, the team behind her, the background and the many reasons why she is such a true-blue Australian that she could never be mistaken for any other nationality. Barty: Power and Glory is the result.
Main title:
Barty : power and glory : the inspiring journey to the top of world tennis / by Ron Reed with contributions from Linda Pearce and Chris McLeod.
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Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : Wilkinson Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
202 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Contents:
A year of glory for a new star with no tickets on herself -- Whey even the dogs are barking for her -- Opportunity comes calling...in French -- Friends and foe on top of the world -- A target to toy with: to infinity and beyond -- Unmistakeably from the land down under -- Why it's ladies first for Ash and the girls -- A chubby little missile launcher -- How tennis stopped being fun and became a job -- Rule number one: be a nice person -- Toppled from the top - but not for long / Ron Reed -- It's we not me - the one word that defines the Ash Barty that I know / Linda Pearce -- Timeline to the top -- Match points in the career of Ash Barty -- Rising through the rankings -- The 2019 slams and titles -- Ash's coaches -- Year by year -- 2019: ascension to No.1 -- Ash's 2019 singles record -- Junior career -- Doubles career -- Mixed doubles -- Cricket -- Wit and wisdom of Ash Barty -- Off the court -- The road ahead / Ron Reed -- It's not just what you do but how you go about it.
ISBN:
9781925927214 (paperback)
Dewey class:
796.342
Language:
English
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BRN:
383627
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 796.342 BAR | Available |