PARIS (Reuters) - Ashleigh Barty hated her first trip to Paris but 10 years later, after one of the more remarkable tennis journeys, she woke up in the French capital on Sunday as queen of Roland Garros. It was in Paris that a 13-year-old Barty got her first taste of life on the road when she joined a group of fellow Australian junior hopefuls competing at an international event. I remember that was my first international tournament, my first taste of international tennis and it was terrible. "It was fun, it was enjoyable and it was the most authentic way to play tennis," Barty said of her junior days. "The pathways and the progress we've made for indigenous youth around the nation has been incredible," Barty, an Indigenous Tennis Ambassador for Tennis Australia, said.

Source: The Star June 09, 2019 12:45 UTC