Ash Barty and Casey Dellacqua received their opening match within the girls’s invitational doubles competitors at Wimbledon 2024.
London, Nice Britain, 11 July 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Precisely three years after profitable the Wimbledon girls’s singles title, Ash Barty made a triumphant return to Centre Courtroom in the present day on the All England Membership.
The previous world No.1 reunited with shut buddy and former accomplice Casey Dellacqua to attain a 5-7 6-3 [10-7] victory towards German Andrea Petkovic and Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova in a girls’s invitational doubles match.
“Clearly that is the place that holds a few of my most cherished reminiscences,” Barty stated. “And (it’s) very nice to be again with my greatest mate on the court docket. It’s fairly particular.”
Barty and Dellacqua relished their late promotion to Centre Courtroom, which they solely discovered of hours earlier than their match.
“It was superb. Very shocking,” stated Barty, who was a girls’s doubles finalist at Wimbledon alongside Dellacqua in 2013.
“A beautiful shock to have the ability to exit on Centre Courtroom. I assumed I’d performed my final match on the market.”
Welcome again to Centre Courtroom, @ashbarty 👋
Our 2021 champion joins nice buddy Casey Dellacqua within the girls’ invitation doubles to face Rybarikova and Petkovic!#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/4lUM0EIIsK
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 10, 2024
It has been a busy fortnight for Barty, who additionally made her commentary debut on the BBC.
“I’ve learnt rather a lot and have actually loved watching dwell tennis once more,” Barty stated of the expertise.
“I’ve acquired an exquisite commentary field on each Centre and No.1 Courtroom. You get view and are in a position to soak up what’s taking place out on the court docket. Hopefully folks at house are having fun with what I’m having to say. I don’t know whether or not I’m proper, unsuitable or detached, however I’m having fun with it as nicely.”
As for whether or not these experiences have reignited her aggressive wishes, the 28-year-old was fast to shutdown any discuss of a possible comeback.
“No, mate. No, I’m not,” Barty stated.
“Anybody have a thesaurus for a phrase that I can use for ‘no’?”
Barty and Dellacqua are amongst 9 Australian greats competing within the Wimbledon invitational occasions this 12 months.
> READ: 9 Australian legends again on court docket at Wimbledon 2024
Aussies in motion – Wimbledon
RESULTS
Girls’s invitational doubles, round-robin
Ash Barty (AUS)/Casey Dellacqua (AUS) d Andrea Petkovic (GER)/Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 5-7 6-3 [10-7]
Combined invitational doubles, round-robin
Mark Woodforde (AUS)/Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) d Greg Rusedski (GBR)/Iva Majoli (CRO) 6-3 6-4
COMING UP
Girls’s invitational doubles, round-robin
Ash Barty (AUS)/Casey Dellacqua (AUS) v Roberta Vinci (ITA)/Zheng Jie (CHN)
Sam Stosur (AUS)/Cara Black (ZIM) v Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)/Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
Sam Stosur (AUS)/Cara Black (ZIM) v Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/Laura Robson (GBR)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 girls’s invitational doubles draw
Males’s invitational doubles, round-robin
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)/Kevin Anderson (RSA) v Mark Philippoussis (AUS)/Tommy Haas (GER)
Mark Philippoussis (AUS)/Tommy Haas (GER) v Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/Robert Farah (COL)
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)/Kevin Anderson (RSA) v Jamie Delgado (GBR)/Sebastian Grosjean (FRA)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 males’s invitational doubles draw
Combined invitational doubles, round-robin
Mark Woodforde (AUS)/Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) v Mansour Bahrami (IRI)/Alicia Molik (AUS)
Todd Woodbridge (AUS)/Rennae Stubbs (AUS) v Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)/Anne Keothavong (GBR)
Todd Woodbridge (AUS)/Rennae Stubbs (AUS) v Thomas Enqvist (SWE)/Martina Navratilova (USA)
Mansour Bahrami (IRI)/Alicia Molik (AUS) v Richard Krajicek (NED)/Conchita Martinez (ESP)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 combined invitational doubles draw
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