The amazing tennis that rocked the Australian Open with a Spanish coach

“She has to play with a smile and with freedom. She’s not Barty, she’s herself. She’s passionate, she wants to do well. She’s professional and very focused on tennis,” he says. Ashleigh Bartythe Australian tennis player who announced his retirement days after becoming the first ‘Aussie’ champion of the Australian Open after a 44-year drought.

At 25, queen of her country, tennis lover, and a solid world number one, she announced she was hanging up her racket. “I don’t have the physical and emotional motivation needed anymore,” she said, causing a stir on the WTA Tour. He was very clear, he demanded the immediate removal of his name and surname from the classification board.

Now he is asking for hope, but also calm for the one designated as his heir in Australia. And he emphasizes that he should not be compared to her, that Emerson Jones He has his own style, which he should build his professional career, without any shadow.

Emerson Jones is the ‘Aussie’ tennis prodigy. He has long been tipped as a future champion. At 16 years old, he is burning through stages at a ferocious pace. Convincing. He finished 2024 as junior world number one, winning the last Masters of the best. His brother also qualified for the men’s tournament, haydenwho was 18 years old and began to make a name for himself among the professionals. It occupies position 609 in the ranking.

They are part of the family of athletes on the Gold Coast. the mother, Loretta Harrop, He is a tritathlon world champion, silver at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. His father, Brad Jonesplayed Australian rules football.

Emerson Jones, ‘Emmo’, She is a finalist, at 15 years old, in the juniors of the Australian Open in 2024, where she will debut in the main draw this Tuesday against one of the best in the world, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina. He did not pass the previous one in the previous edition, he received an invitation for this one.

Also a Wimbledon under-18 finalist, she excited a few weeks ago on the WTA Tour by debuting with a victory over the Chinese. Xinyu WangNo. 37 in the world, at the 500 tournament in Brisbane, 6-4 and 6-0. He played No. 9, the Russian Daria Kasatkina, against which he lost 7-5 and 6-3. It has entered the top-300, placing itself at the 293rd place in the ranking.

Detractors cite his short stature, although this is a factor that outweighs him. Ash Barty among those who tend to look for comparisons. About 1.64 tall. Although there is a hand and sense of the game, although the backhand is deeper and is hit with both hands. Barty is a stylist.

“It makes me happy that people say I’m following in Ashleigh Barty’s footsteps. What she’s done is incredible,” she said. Emerson Joneswithout fear of heights.

His coach, the Spaniard, has a lot of confidence in him Carlos Cuadradowho was junior champion at Roland Garros in 2001. Knee injuries cut his career short. The Barcelona native spent a long time working for the Australian tennis federation, before traveling the world on a sailboat with his family. He has returned to work as a technician. They entrusted him with the reins of the Australian pearl quarry, the direction of ‘Emmo’.

You will have an interesting test Elena Rybakinaa high-powered player, with Wimbledon on his record and the goal of once again being an alternative to Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff.