Light Southerly Breeze At Wimbledon
- July 4th, 2011
- Posted by EUEditor
Victory in the Wimbledon Girls’ Tennis for Ashleigh Barty, (picture, with Yvonne Goolagong Cawley, Wimbledon champion 1980), capped a great week for young Australian contenders.
The win accompanied that of Luke Saville in the Boys’, and Bernard Tomic’s get-up-and-fight challenge to the Champion, Novak Djokovic, in the quarter-finals last week.
Ashleigh Barty, 16, from Ipswich in Queensland, defeated Russia’s Irina Khromacheva, (3.7.11)  – 7-5, 7-6, (7/3).
She told a media conference later she had gone into the competition with good support.
“I‘m the only girl here, otherwise it’s all boysâ€, she said.
“All of us Aussies are pretty close and I appreciated the support from them…
“I was happy to get past the first round let alone win it.â€
What had led her to play elite-level tennis?
“I didn’t want to play Netball, so I thought I’d give it a go….â€
See video: http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/articles/2011-07-03/201107031309717055119.html, (4.7.11).
See also EUAustralia Online: “Sports: Big Weekend”, 3.7.11; “Tennis: Tomic falls, honourably …”, 30.6.11.
Pictures  zimbio / Wimbledon Tennis