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This morning.
World number one Ash Barty has decided to retire from professional tennis at the age of 25 citing fatigue with life on the Tour.
‘I am spent’: World number one Barty goes out on top (Reuters)
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Actually a normal enough age to retire for some players.
What colour is the sky in your world, tom2?
I’ve seen some gibberish on here, even contributed some myself but you’ve just taken the biscuit. That is, genuinely, the stupidist thing I’ve ever read here.
Yes, I’m including everything Nigel’s written.
Fair play to her, got to do what’s best for you.
I do wonder if this will become more of a thing throughout professional sports and other jobs – we can now appreciate that it’s OK to say you’re done when you’re done.
It’s a conversation best had over pints and I couldn’t really be arsed typing it all out on my phone but you could tie this into the Gerrard/Saka discourse where you have a generational divide over the sacrifices you feel obliged to make for your career.
A cynic might think you’re stretching to make another point altogether Bodger but I’m too cheery a soul for that.
Everybody knows.
It’s true, you’re infamous.
In these halls, anyway
And that’s good enough.
“, but left the tour entirely for nearly two years in 2014 because of burnout, overwhelmed by the pressure and travel required.”
She must have got an early release of the vaccine in 2014 then.
24 million in prize money and retiring to move onto something new?
Fair play.
Exactly. Best of luck to her.
The pressures of success and expectation
Maybe if she was left alone by the media and treated like a normal human being she might just of not retired
Now we face years of not seeing and enjoying a great athlete
Happiness is everything and enjoy the fruits of life for it’s just not worth while to become a slave of success
Some of her peers have spoken out recently about the negative effects of that media attention on their mental health.
We saw that incident with the crowd recently (pull your jocks up Bodger, not THAT kind of incident) where a player refused to play on after receiving abuse from one of them.
Young people challenging the notion that things always have to be a ways cause that’s how they’ve always been is a good thing.
Challenging how things have always been is easy, ANO. It’s the coming up with a viable alternative to how things have evolved, from within a set of imaginary abstractions that tends to be the hard bit.
Society, in general, is an historical artifact, one that many academics, politicians & spotty leftie teenagers believe is inferior to the Utopia in their heads.
The Great Reset is one such & I feel confident in predicting it will be just as great as all the other Utopias.
It’s not easy though.
Look at the scorn faced by tennis players who’ve spoken up about the pressures they’re under. Saka getting grief from a battered Gerrard cause he’d like to maybe finish his career without a litany of operations and a pair of busted knees to his name.
It takes courage to tackle the status quo and I’m hopeful that the tuned in youth of today will change their fields for the better.
I know you see all of that as liberal lefty woke gay frog nonsense but that’s cause you’re wrong.
Maybe she just fancied spending more time with her money. Maybe it’s those “needles in the chest”. Maybe it’s the way sportspeople are being forced by the Regime to push racism, gender nonsense & toxic fake vaccines.
Anyway, she’s tired, tired of being admired, tired of love uninspired, men coming & going & going & coming, and always….too soon.
Local lad on Broadsheet knows why Ash Barty is retiring, though can’t understand it as the story is not about a footballer and the vaccine taken.
Do you now, Hughie? Well done
RIP to another vaccine injured….
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Yeah, vaccine injuries, hilarious.
One day, Ian, you’ll feel like an absolute tool for this post. One of the bluntest in the box, natch.
If you’re not already dead from, well, you know. Go get a booster, right now.