Casey Dellacqua displays on her Wimbledon return to associate Ash Barty within the invitational ladies’s doubles occasion.
London, Nice Britain, 12 July 2024 | Leigh Rogers
All eyes have been on Ash Barty this week, as the previous world No.1 competes within the Wimbledon ladies’s invitational doubles occasion.
Three years after profitable the ladies’s singles title on the All England Membership, the 28-year-old is now competing towards fellow retired gamers in entrance of excited crowds.
For her doubles associate, fellow Australian Casey Dellacqua, it’s proving a particular expertise too.
“I’m seven years retired now, so I’m effectively and really feeling like I’m out of that skilled participant mode,” stated Dellacqua, who achieved career-high rankings of world No.26 in singles and world No.3 in doubles throughout her taking part in profession.
“I’ve been fairly reflective and actually grateful to be right here. Initially, I’m simply actually appreciative for this chance and likewise simply to be with nice mates that I grew up with. It’s type of a ‘pinch-me’ second for myself to be right here, particularly with Ash.”
Barty and Dellacqua, affectionately dubbed ABCD, loved a profitable doubles partnership and have become shut buddies throughout their careers. They gained 5 WTA doubles titles and likewise superior to doubles finals in any respect 4 Grand Slams collectively.
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The 39-year-old Dellacqua described practising with, in addition to competing towards, former friends and buddies this week as “unbelievable”.
“It’s simply been so good to be right here, not solely with Ash, however with Todd (Woodbridge), Sam (Stosur), I’ve hit with the entire Aussie contingent,” she stated.
“It’s fairly cool, isn’t tennis simply such an awesome sport that you may come again years later and play.”
Barty and Dellacqua stored their unbeaten file intact within the round-robin stage of the ladies’s invitational doubles occasion in the present day, scoring a 6-2 6-4 victory towards Italian Roberta Vinci and China’s Zheng Jie at No.2 Courtroom.
Australian greats Sam Stosur, Lleyton Hewitt, Todd Woodbridge, Rennae Stubbs and Mark Woodforde additionally scored wins within the Wimbledon invitational occasions in the present day.
Aussies in motion – Wimbledon
RESULTS
Ladies’s invitational doubles, round-robin
Ash Barty (AUS)/Casey Dellacqua (AUS) d Roberta Vinci (ITA)/Zheng Jie (CHN) 6-2 6-4
Sam Stosur (AUS)/Cara Black (ZIM) d Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)/Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 7-6(5) 6-2
Sam Stosur (AUS)/Cara Black (ZIM) d Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/Laura Robson (GBR) 7-5 7-5
Males’s invitational doubles, round-robin
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)/Kevin Anderson (RSA) d Mark Philippoussis (AUS)/Tommy Haas (GER) 6-7(3) 6-4 [12-10]
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)/Kevin Anderson (RSA) d Jamie Delgado (GBR)/Sebastian Grosjean (FRA) 6-3 6-2
Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/Robert Farah (COL) d Mark Philippoussis (AUS)/Tommy Haas (GER) 2-6 6-3 [11-9]
Combined invitational doubles, round-robin
Todd Woodbridge (AUS)/Rennae Stubbs (AUS) d Thomas Enqvist (SWE)/Martina Navratilova (USA) 6-4 7-5
Mark Woodforde (AUS)/Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) d Mansour Bahrami (IRI)/Alicia Molik (AUS) 7-6(2) 7-6(5)
Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)/Anne Keothavong (GBR) d Todd Woodbridge (AUS)/Rennae Stubbs (AUS) 6-3 6-2
Richard Krajicek (NED)/Conchita Martinez (ESP) d Mansour Bahrami (IRI)/Alicia Molik (AUS) 6-3 7-5
COMING UP
Ladies’s invitational doubles, round-robin
Sam Stosur (AUS)/Cara Black (ZIM) v Martina Hingis (SUI)/Kim Clijsters (BEL)
Ash Barty (AUS)/Casey Dellacqua (AUS) v Johanna Konta (GBR)/Coco Vandeweghe (USA)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 ladies’s invitational doubles draw
Males’s invitational doubles, round-robin
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)/Kevin Anderson (RSA) v Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/Robert Farah (COL)
Mark Philippoussis (AUS)/Tommy Haas (GER) v Jamie Delgado (GBR)/Sebastian Grosjean (FRA)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 males’s invitational doubles draw
Combined invitational doubles, round-robin
Mark Woodforde (AUS)/Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) v Richard Krajicek (NED)/Conchita Martinez (ESP)
Todd Woodbridge (AUS)/Rennae Stubbs (AUS) v Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)/Barbara Schett (AUT)
Mansour Bahrami (IRI)/Alicia Molik (AUS) v Greg Rusedski (GBR)/Iva Majoli (CRO)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 blended invitational doubles draw
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