Content former No 1 Ash Barty rules out tennis comeback

Ash Barty of Australia. (AP Photo/Hamish Blair)

Former world No. 1 Ash Barty has emphatically ruled out ever making a comeback to tennis, or switching to another sport.

Launching her autobiography at Melbourne Park — scene of her Australian Open triumph in January just two months before her shock retirement announcement — the 26-year-old said she had no desire to return to high-level sport, and was sure she never would.