Australian Open 2022 champion Ash Barty's little-known facts - In Pics

Ash Barty was born on April 24, 1996 to Robert and Josie Barty. Her father worked for the State Library of Queensland, and her mother works as a radiographer. She has two older sisters named Sara and Ali. (Source: Twitter)

Through her great grandmother, she is a member of the Ngaragu people, indigenous to southern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria.  (Source: Twitter)

Ash was good at netball as a child but started playing tennis because her sisters were better at it and she could not compete with them. At just four years of age, she started working with her longtime junior coach Jim Joyce at the West Brisbane Tennis Centre. (Source: Twitter)

After years of playing and winning at junior level tennis, winning in doubles, clinching WTA title, her first Grand Slam victory came in French Open 2019, beating Karolina Pliskova in the final. She then won the Wimbledon in 2020 and Australian Open in 2022. In total, she has won three Grand Slams. (Source: Twitter)

Following the 2014 US Open, Barty announced that she was taking a break from professional tennis. During this hiatus, she tried her hand at Cricket. She became interested in potentially playing cricket after meeting with the Australian women's national team in early 2015, and started training with Andy Richards, the coach of Queensland Fire, in July 2015. She started playing for the Western Suburbs District Cricket Club, and led the team to win the Brisbane's Women's Premier Cricket Twenty20 league in the grand final, as the team’s top scorer in the match. She also played for Heat in inaugural women's BBL. She returned to tennis in 2016. (Source: Twitter)