Todd Woodbridge: Ashleigh Barty could become World No.1
Ashleigh Barty could become a future World No.1 and would be as dangerous on clay as she is on hard, according to fellow Australian Todd Woodbridge.
"She's really comfortable with her results. She believes obviously that she's good enough now to beat any player in the world," Woodbridge told AAP. "Her celebrations weren't over the top last week. She could have really have gone a bit nuts over knowing she'd made the top 10.”
"But that didn't happen. That to me is an indication that 'okay I'm nowhere near what my goal is and I'm just taking each step now to becoming ever so closer to reaching whatever her goal might be, whether that's to win a slam or potentially even get to No.1'.”
"They're lofty goals but, gee, they look like they're reachable."
With not much difference between the Top-10 players in terms of ranking points, Barty, who is at No.9 in the World could be gunning to become the World No.1 in times to come.
"The actual rankings points are pretty tight now. It's less than 2000 points towards getting to No.1," Woodbridge noted. "Getting from 11 to nine was a big jump. Now getting from nine to three is not as much in terms of one more good result.”
"So she's really knocking on that door of the top."
Woodbridge also said that Barty’s game could suit clay, "Ash is a pure all-court player," he said.
"A lot of people are putting Wimbledon as the slam she could win - and with her slice backhand and volley and her ability to get into net there, she's obviously going to be a real force there. But it's funny that clay might be the one that people least expect her to win but it might be the one that actually opens up for her.
"Her slice changes it up, the serve and forehand jumps it out wide, she can spin it up high. That's what Stosur did so well and I actually think Ash has more time to open up and expose her opponents on clay."
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