Ashleigh Barty lost her semifinal to Sofia Kenin on Thursday, but she won plenty of hearts - including that of Aussie superstar Cathy Freeman.
World No.1 tennis player Ashleigh Barty lost in straight sets to Sofia Kenin in Thursday's Australian Open semifinal - but she put on quite a show, leaving track superstar Cathy Freeman and others in awe.
Freeman's defining gold medal victory in the 400m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics proved an inspiration to young girls, athletes and the Indigenous community.Barty, a proud Ngaragu woman, is now making her own mark on the Australian sporting landscape. Having reached the pinnacle of her sport on home soil, Freeman kept her advice to 23-year-old Barty simple.
"Yeah it's disappointing, but yeah it's been a hell of a summer. If you told me three weeks ago that we would have won a tournament in Adelaide and made the semis of the Australian Open I'd take that absolutely every single day of the week," she said.
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