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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the programme. |
0:12.3 | Quitting, walking away, resigning, whatever you want to call it. |
0:16.7 | After nearly three years as the world's number one tennis player, |
0:20.4 | Ashbati has announced her retirement from the sport, age 25. |
0:25.2 | But how do you know when it is the right time to walk away? |
0:29.3 | Ashbati's definitely going out on a high. |
0:31.8 | Three Grand Slam singles events that she's taken, |
0:34.7 | including this year's Australian Open in January, |
0:37.5 | becoming the first home player to win it |
0:39.5 | in the men's or women's side of things in 44 years. |
0:43.1 | She also, of course, took Wimbledon last year. |
0:46.0 | She says she's leaving to chase other dreams |
0:48.7 | and was absolutely spent with physically nothing more to give. |
0:52.8 | And she's also said, I'm so happy and I'm so ready. |
0:56.1 | But how do you know when it is the right time to go? |
0:58.9 | When have you done it? |
1:00.1 | How did it feel? |
1:01.6 | Were you worried? |
1:02.5 | Were you nervous? |
1:03.3 | Were you exhilarated? |
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