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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: We are thrilled to be chatting to our next guest.

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Speaker 2: She's an Australian icon, a sporting champion, a role model,

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Speaker 2: an advocate and all around fabulous human. After calling time

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Speaker 2: on her tennis career at twenty five years of age

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Speaker 2: after three Grand Slam wins, she's acing a different role.

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Speaker 2: See what I did there, She's becoming an author. The

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Speaker 2: one and only Ash Barty joins us.

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Speaker 1: Now, hallo Ash, Good morning guys. How are you?

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Speaker 3: Isn't that enough? Ash? You retire and now you're writing

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Speaker 3: a book? Isn't that something you do in your doughtreach?

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Speaker 3: Like I wrote a a few years ago, and I

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Speaker 3: remember you're one hundred years old. I'm a thousand years old.

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Speaker 1: No, it's been a lot of fun. It's always been

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Speaker 1: something that I've wanted to do and never had the time.

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Speaker 1: I've always been the kind of person that's wanted to

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Speaker 1: do everything at absolute one hundred percent, never never do

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Speaker 1: it half off. And now having a time it has

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Speaker 1: been brilliant and it's been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: These stories been in your head for a while. How

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Speaker 2: did the Little Ash series come about? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean some of them. I mean, the storylines are

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Speaker 1: from my experiences as a kid and kind of some

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Speaker 1: of my mery, my memories. I mean, they're not factual,

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Speaker 1: but they're definitely inspired by experiences that I had with

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Speaker 1: my friends, my sisters, and you know, hopefully they bring

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Speaker 1: a smile to some faces and you can relate to them.

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Speaker 1: It's it's pretty normal, it's pretty funny, and it's all

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Speaker 1: kind of bits and pieces from my childhood.

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Speaker 3: So it's a little ash and this is all a

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Speaker 3: precursor to a memoir.

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Speaker 1: It is, indeed, which is really scary. I feel like

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Speaker 1: when people say memoir, I'm like that it makes you

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Speaker 1: sound really old. But it's been such a fun progress

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Speaker 1: and process. Going through transcribing and kind of reliving some

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Speaker 1: of the hardest moments of my life, of my career,

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Speaker 1: but then also get getting to relive and chat through

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Speaker 1: some of the very best has been just an awesome,

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Speaker 1: awesome experience.

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Speaker 2: You said that you've waited until you've had more time

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Speaker 2: on your hands for some of these things. When you

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Speaker 2: first announce your retirement, like the first week after that,

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Speaker 2: did you go, oh, this is great, I've got nowhere

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Speaker 2: to be, nothing to do, And then did you get

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Speaker 2: a bit antsy. How are you pacing yourself through your weeks?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the first week I pretty much shut up, shut

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Speaker 1: up shop at home and close my windows and just

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Speaker 1: really enjoyed just being at home and keeping keeping my

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Speaker 1: head down. But now it's been really nice to have

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Speaker 1: some structure and still get my routine of what I

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Speaker 1: love to do. I still love to train and be

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Speaker 1: active and get out of there. I love to read,

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Speaker 1: so there's more time for reading, which is great, and

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Speaker 1: get into a nice routine before bed and little things

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Speaker 1: like that. But it's certainly been nice now to have

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Speaker 1: some quiet days, but also some days we're pretty busy

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Speaker 1: and getting to do some really fun, impactful things.

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Speaker 2: I imagine you have a highly competitive spirit. You must

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Speaker 2: have to have reached the top of your game in

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Speaker 2: a number of sports. How does that manifest now?

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Speaker 3: Do you?

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Speaker 2: When you're driving in the traffic? Are you trying to

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Speaker 2: beat someone in the car next to you? Are you

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Speaker 2: able to tone it down?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm driving Miss Davey over here. But I still

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Speaker 1: compete with myself, I really do, and I always like

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Speaker 1: to challenge myself, whether it's I'm going for a run

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Speaker 1: or in the gym, or on the bikele or just

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Speaker 1: out playing at a social game of golf. I always

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Speaker 1: like to try and do the best that I can

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Speaker 1: whatever it is on that day. Some days better than others,

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Speaker 1: like everyone experiences. But the competitive nature and me always

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Speaker 1: comes forward and comes to fruition and pushes me that

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Speaker 1: little bit more.

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Speaker 3: And you're loving your golf? Are you really enjoying it

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Speaker 3: at the moment?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I love golf. I always have it. It's

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Speaker 1: been an incredible hobby of mine. I haven't actually had

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Speaker 1: a lot of time to play recently. I thought that

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Speaker 1: retirement and bring you know, every Wednesday and Thursday and

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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday Sunday be out on the golf course.

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Speaker 1: But it is seldom now that I do get out there.

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Speaker 1: But I love it.

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Speaker 3: And you're looking forward to buying a caravan and just

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Speaker 3: traveling around Australia and stopping in at various towns and

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Speaker 3: having cups of coffee to tennis.

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Speaker 1: I say, what that is a bucket list? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think for every odd jumping to caravan around our

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Speaker 1: beautiful country, it would be pretty amazing to do. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure how the dogs unfair sitting in the caravan

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Speaker 1: for all that time on the road, but definitely a

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Speaker 1: Bucketlet's start them down the track for sure.

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Speaker 2: What are your dogs?

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Speaker 1: What have you got I've got I've got a wolfpack,

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Speaker 1: genuine wolfpack. I've got two little multie cross Hitsu, we've

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Speaker 1: got a border Collie, and we've also got two other

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Speaker 1: kind of little little packers. So a full handful of

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Speaker 1: full house.

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Speaker 3: Well look at you, perfect books dogs.

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Speaker 4: You don't do anything half fast. It's all the full

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Speaker 4: lass and we look forward to catching up with you

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Speaker 4: again soon. Ashparti's book series, Little Ash is on sale now.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, Ash

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Speaker 1: Naudie, thank you so much, guys, thank you Ash