Ashleigh Barty beats Marketa Vondrousova, 6-1, 6-3, to win the French Open, the first career Grand Slam title for the 23-year-old Australian
Tennis has long been a sport with a bad tradition of eating its youngest. Players turn professional at ages when they should be studying algebra, getting drivers permits and attending dances. Sometimes, they start even earlier than that. Despite the occasional prodigy turned champion, the grind of the tour prematurely wears down much more preternatural talent.
There was a moment when Ashleigh Barty looked like she could have been another one of those early casualties. A junior champion in her teens, she walked away from the...
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