Injured for the start of the season and only back in Indian Wells, Karolina Pliskova was finally able to speak publicly about the early retirement of Ashleigh Barty on the WTA site. Obviously surprised, the Czech player does not rule out a return of the Australian in the years to come.
“I was shocked because I’m not really on Twitter because I don’t want too much information for me. But someone texted me saying, ‘Oh, did you see the news? “. It was 11 p.m. in Miami. I was like, “No, no, someone cried again or something? They said, “No, no, Ashleigh, she stopped. I’m like, ‘Not possible, it’s not possible. Tell me the reason. “I understand that everyone is different. For me, it’s not understandable at all because I love the game so much. But I understand that someone can suffer, that someone doesn’t like to travel. She won everything she wanted to win, I guess maybe she had no motivation. If you hate this life of tennis and it’s not what you always wanted to do, I think it’s good to stop. But I was surprised and shocked. I thought she was a really good number one for our sport and had been around for a while. Of course, now Iga is a very good player, but I just thought Ashleigh was a good person and had a good charisma. She’ll miss me. But we never know. I think she might come back. And then she’ll just be 27. »
Posted on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 3:47 PM
