Australia delights in Barty's baby joy
総理大臣 Anthony Albanese has joined in congratulations and 井戸／弁護士席 wishes to an excited Ash Barty after the retired tennis 支持する／優勝者 株d the news she is 妊娠している.
While Barty won't defend her Australian Open 栄冠を与える this month she continues to draw headlines.
The 26-year-old former world No.1 明らかにする／漏らすd her baby joy on social マスコミ on Friday night.
Barty 地位，任命するd a photo on Instagram of her dog Origi with a pair of baby shoes.
"2023 始める，決める to be the best year yet. We are so excited for our new adventure," Barty wrote in a caption 含むing a baby emoji.
"Origi already the 保護の big sister."
Her husband, ゴルフ プロの／賛成の Garry Kissick, also 地位，任命するd on Instagram a photo of the baby shoes with the dog and a baby-sized Liverpool 道具 with the caption "Little Red, 2023" and a baby emoji.
The PM joined those sending 井戸／弁護士席 wishes to former Young Australian of the Year Barty.
"This is just fantastic news that Ash Barty is going to be a new mum in 2023," Albanese said on Saturday.
"Ash Barty is someone who is a 広大な／多数の／重要な credit to Australia. I had the 特権 of 存在 there to watch her 勝利，勝つ the Australian Open in January of last year.
"Ash Barty carries herself so 井戸／弁護士席 and is just a 広大な／多数の／重要な Australian and I think that all Australians will wish Ash Barty all the very very best.
"I look 今後 to seeing Ash Barty in whatever she does. She's going to be a 勝利者 on the 法廷，裁判所 and off the 法廷，裁判所 and congratulations."
The three-time grand-激突する 支持する／優勝者's news comes nine months after she shocked the tennis world by quitting the sport just seven weeks after endi ng Australia's 44-year （テニスなどの）シングルス 肩書を与える 干ばつ at the Open.
Barty has already been busy in 退職, publishing a 一連の children's 調書をとる／予約するs, 解放（する）ing her own autobiography "My Dream Time", starting a 創立／基礎 and 助言者ing 現れるing young tennis 星／主役にする Olivia Gadecki.
While she won't be playing, Barty will still be a 目だつ presence at Melbourne Park this month, supporting Gadecki when the 20-year-old makes her 熱望して-心配するd Open debut when the major starts on January 16.
