{"id":411245,"date":"2024-07-11T01:12:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=411245"},"modified":"2024-07-11T03:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T03:07:03","slug":"barty-responds-to-comeback-calls-in-special-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=411245","title":{"rendered":"Barty responds to comeback calls in 'special' return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian tennis icon Ash Barty<\/a> has returned to the court at the All England Club but there's no sign of a comeback to the pro circuit.<\/p>\n

Three years since winning the Wimbledon<\/a> singles title, Barty was on Centre Court on Thursday (AEST) with fellow Aussie Casey Dellacqua for an invitational doubles match.<\/p>\n

The Aussie duo defeated German Andrea Petkovic and Slovak Magdalena \ufeffRybarikova 5-7 6-3 [10-7] and will now play Roberta Vinci and Zheng Jie.<\/p>\n

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Barty described the occasion as "pretty special". \ufeff<\/p>\n

"Obviously this is the place that holds some of my most cherished memories," she said.<\/p>\n

"And (it's) really nice to be back with my best mate on the court. It's pretty special."<\/p>\n

Watch Wimbledon 2024 live and exclusively free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Plus centre court in 4K UHD on<\/strong><\/em> Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the home of grand slam tennis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportAU\/status\/1811105608906498095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

"It was amazing … a lovely surprise to be able to go out on Centre Court. I thought I'd played my last match out there."<\/p>\n

Since retiring from tennis in \ufeff2022<\/a>, Barty has been constantly asked about whether she'll make a fulltime comeback.<\/p>\n

On Stan Sport's Grand Slam Daily<\/em> this week, Kim Clijsters speculated on what Barty's invitational return might lead to<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportAU\/status\/1811099203546100157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

"There is definitely a part of me that hopes she gets triggered by the challenge," the Belgian great said.<\/p>\n

However, the Aussie champion put to bed any rumours after her doubles match.<\/p>\n

"You guys are killing me. Anyone have a thesaurus for a word that I can use for 'no'? No, mate. No, I'm not," Barty said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian tennis icon Ash Barty has returned to the court at the All England Club but there's no sign of a comeback to the pro […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411248,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411245\/revisions\/411248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/411247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}