Domain Review Ivanhoe & Valley - December 11, 2019

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The editor’s desk

French Open champion Ash Barty inspires superlatives and yet it doesn’t seem right to heap saccharine comments on a young woman who is so humble and down to earth. That comes across in her feature interview this week. She spoke to journalist Josh Bozin ahead of the 2020 Australian Open (which kicks off on January 20, with coverage on Nine), while launching a special watch that commemorates her record-breaking achievements this season. She is world No.1 but concedes the competition for her crown is intense, and this will make for compelling contests at Melbourne Park. ●

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ueen of the court; the world’s No.1 ranked female tennis player. French Open champion Ash Barty has put her name in the history books of both tennis and wider Australian sport.

From afar, it would seem that the 23-year-old from Ipswich, Queensland isn’t all that fazed by the prestigious accolades, record amount of prize money (no player – not even Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Serena Williams – has ever received such riches from a single tournament as Barty did from her win in Shenzhen, China) or the global fame her achievements have since afforded her.

From the title win at the Miami Open in March to her unforgettable triumph – and a maiden grand slam event title – at the French Open in June, Barty’s coveted WTA world No.1 slot was the icing on the cake, ending the year on an all-time high.

In doing so, she has become the first Australian woman to hold the No.1 rank at the end of a season, on top of being the first Australian woman to reach No.1 since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1976.

As versatile as Barty is on court – she is an allcourt player, trading shots on grass, clay and hardcourts with ease – off the court, she is just as impressive, juggling many different hats throughout the year. She works closely with Tennis Australia as the national Indigenous tennis ambassador, a role which she is extremely proud of as an Indigenous woman, and also recently launched the national campaign #PlayForYou, which encourages young girls to stay in sport.

Barty is also a Rado YoungStars ambassador. It’s this partnership with the Swiss watchmaker that has afforded her the luxury of creating her own timepiece: the limited edition Rado HyperChrome, a sentimental watch that signifies Barty’s momentous achievements in 2019.

While indifferent to the glitz and glamour that comes with her position as the world’s best tennis female player, Barty has an affinity for watches and it’s her design of the Rado HyperChrome that is most special.

“I am slightly addicted to watches, I must admit.

that every moment, move, and play, counts. And it’s no different away from the tennis world.

“I try to enjoy and appreciate every moment I have, wherever I may be in the world,” Barty says.

“My time at home with family and friends, in particular, is always precious to me; it keeps me happy. There is nothing better than spending time with them and doing the simple things like taking my dogs for a walk or playing golf with my boyfriend; I’m a real homebody.”

It’s Barty’s penchant for the simple things in life or, perhaps, her perspective that is the key to her success. Regarded as a junior prodigy in her early teens, she learnt the hardships of being in the public eye at a very young age.

As a result, in 2016, Barty took a two-year break to experience life as a normal teenage girl, almost giving up tennis for good.

“Keeping things in perspective is something I have definitely got better at,” she says.

“There will always be good days and bad days but I have learnt that even if I have a tough match or a

“My coach Craig Tyzzer and I definitely need to work harder than ever to prepare for matches ... as the women’s game is so competitive.”

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So when Rado asked me if I would like to collaborate on a special timepiece, I jumped at the opportunity,” Barty says.

“I really enjoyed working on the design and helping the team create this beautiful piece that I can literally wear anywhere. I feel so honoured that Rado created this with me and I will treasure it forever.”

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arty’s watch design has a 36-millimetre mother-of-pearl dial, presented in white high-tech ceramic with silver coloured detailing and a bezel set with 60 diamonds. A special engraving on the case back reveals Barty’s signature coupled with the inscription “Limited Edition. One of 123”. The numerals represent her reaching the No.1 ranking in the world at the age of 23.

“Not only is she an incredible athlete and a great role model, but Ash is a fantastic representative of Rado and our values,” Rado chief executive Matthias Breschan says. “This limited edition watch was the best way we could think of to mark her incredible year to remember.”

On the matter of time, Barty seems to be making the most of this precious commodity; she knows

disappointing result, it’s going to be OK at the end of the day.

“Regardless of what happens in a tennis match, I have an incredible family and friends who I love and who love me no matter what. That is the most important thing.

“I try and set the right example on and off the court and live by the values my parents taught me: to be a good person, respect yourself and your opponent, and to have fun.

“If my story inspires even one young boy or girl to follow their dreams then I am very proud of that.”

Australian fans of Barty can buy her watch, which was launched in Melbourne last week.

From December 3, the Rado HyperChrome Ashleigh Barty Limited Edition is available to order and buy from Rado retailers as well as online.

Barty is in action again on home soil next year at the Adelaide International from January 12 to 18, where Rado is the official timekeeper.

She will then contest the Australian Open, after reaching the quarter-finals last year, as the top seed in the women’s draw (January 20 to February 2 at Melbourne Park). ● ● rado.com

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And last week Barty won her third straight Newcombe Medal as Australia’s most outstanding tennis player of 2019. “It feels great to be in the position that I’m in,” Barty tells Domain Review.

“I am so proud of what my team and I have achieved this year; we’ve worked so hard so it’s rewarding to see the effort paying off. Now I get to enjoy some holiday time, which is giving me the chance to relax and reflect on the incredible year my team and I have had.”

Barty remains ever so humble, bashful even; she’s content with the result of her year but yearning for more come in 2020. While all eyes are on the world No.1, Barty says the only pressure she feels going into the new year is the pressure she puts on herself.

“My team and I go about our training and preparation exactly the same way, regardless of the tournament or the match,” she says.

“That routine keeps me focused. My coach Craig Tyzzer and I definitely need to work harder than ever to prepare for matches and make sure we have a solid game plan, as the women’s game is so competitive at the moment.

“But I’m hopeful for another consistent year with some great results, starting at home at the Australian Open in January ... I can’t wait.”

COVER STORY

Ash Barty is keeping her cool ahead of her home grand slam event and says the contest is only getting hotter.

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Broadcaster Tony Jones and wife Annette at home. JULIAN KINGMA

Nine’s Tony Jones reveals the secret coach who keeps him on point.

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icture this: Melbourne sports presenter and broadcaster Tony Jones is dressed in shorts, an apron and Ugg boots.

He is perched beside a wood lathe in his garage somewhere in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Frank Sinatra is blaring from a speaker, Meatloaf only moments before that.

With a safety mask fixed to his face, his focus is only on the spinning wooden pen he has been carefully crafting for the last half hour‚ not his wife Annette, who just pulled into the driveway. She steps from her vehicle shaking her head. “Oh Tony,”

Checks & balance she says. “Take a look at yourself.”

After more than 34 years in Melbourne’s media industry, Jones confesses to being far more comfortable at home pursuing an obscure hobby than pressing the flesh at network media launches.

He says he’s no celebrity and that’s true, of course. But as one of Channel Nine’s most recognisable faces, he’s often approached for a selfie and a chat. “It doesn’t bother me,” he says.

“It would bother me more if they didn’t.” For the most part, admirers offer compliments.

However, there is the occasional dig. Jones has learnt to weather the critics in a career he kickstarted behind a regional microphone in Wangaratta, before he landed a job at 3AW and then Nine.

This year his string of commitments included nightly news sports anchor, host of the Sunday Footy Show and regular fill-in host for Neil Mitchell’s morning talkback

show on 3AW. Last month he announced he would quit his role with the Today breakfast show due to an unsustainable workload.

In January, Jones will helm Nine’s Australian Open coverage alongside Rebecca Maddern and James Bracey.

It was only last year, in the network’s inaugural broadcast of the event, that Jones arguably copped the worst flak of his career.

Keyboard warriors took aim after his interview with women’s champion Naomi Osaka. Such was the social media lambasting, he removed himself from Twitter. “I asked the questions that anybody else would have asked of a difficult interviewee,” Jones says.

“I’ve not looked back at it. I just find it has absolutely taken on a life of its own. Do I lose any sleep over it?

No. Does it annoy me? Yeah.”

Even as Jones’ media commitments have ballooned, he says his ego hasn’t. He has his wife to thank for

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that. When serving as a radio host, Annette is always on the phone to offer a text or two. “She tells me if I have stepped out of line; if I have been too harsh or rude to somebody she will text straight away.”

Sometimes, “Dorothy from Rosebud” even rates a mention. “I can be fairly critical,” Annette says.

“But I think I’m fair. If he’s been good I’ll tell him, too. I weigh up both sides. I know what his intent is.”

But it’s rare if those issues of the day make it past the front door.

“Sometimes, I get a couple of minutes to get whatever I’ve got on my chest off it. Then we talk about the dog,” Jones says.

With his wife as his greatest support, Jones acknowledges that most of his other inspirations are no longer with us. There was Collingwood legend Lou Richards.

The pair worked together across many years. “Lou was a great role model and there are still things he

would say to me that I recall now.”

From a presenting point of view there was Brian Naylor, the Nine anchor who died during the Black Saturday bushfires. Then his current colleague, Peter Hitchener.

“With Brian there was this great authority. With Hitch there is this great compassion and warmth. I’m not saying that just to be a company man. But when you’re sitting next to those blokes it’s like when a footballer is playing under a great coach. You learn a lot from them.”

In heading up Nine’s 2020 Australian Open coverage, Jones says he is looking forward to again being a part of one of Australia’s greatest international sporting spectacles.

He’s a big fan of world No.1 Ash Barty and the list of young up-andcomers who are likely ready to yet again make their mark.

But his opinion on one of our more polarising tennis exports, Nick Kyrgios, remains mixed. “I just think it’s so sad in a way because he could be No.1 in the world. But there are two Nicks. There is the appalling Nick and the adorable Nick and … when he’s good, he’s really engaging.”

Watching Jones navigate an interview with the surly star will surely prove unmissable viewing.

Jones remains more than happy to confront any would-be critics of his presenting style, if it means good ratings. He is a TV man, after all.

“It’s like playing a game of footy, you are constantly looking at the scoreboard and when you lose you are hardly going to high-five,” he says. “We get judged every night and get the verdict every morning.” ● AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2020 \ Tony Jones will be part of the hosting lineup for the 2020 Australian Open, broadcast on Nine from January 20.

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Todd’s just not sure what impression she made back then in series six, 2014.

“One day, the executive producer pulled me aside and said, ‘Sarah, you have to talk more!’ I was just so nervous about what people would think of me. I thought because I was a model, they would put these ‘tweet tweet tweet’ sounds over me when I was

Tennis fans can book one of two dinners hosted by Sarah Todd.

on screen. But once the press started coming out and it was positive, I was like, ‘OK, it’s fine.’”

It wasn’t the first time she would have to learn how to overcome a challenging situation.

After being scouted in a fashion show’s audience at 17, she fronted up to Chadwick Models after nearly losing her way – “I’m from a town of a thousand people and I literally could not find the place.” Although she was so nervous that her teeth were chattering throughout that interview, she got signed on the spot.

Work with international labels including Gucci and Hugo Boss followed, but her desire to model waned after she had a son, Phoenix, in her mid-20s.

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getting changed and doing the same poses over and over. I was thinking, ‘What I am doing? This is not filling my soul any more. I’d rather be home with my son.’ ” Cooking had been something she’d finessed while trying to make food tastier for her son.

That led to her training at Le Cordon Bleu and getting experience with Michelin-star chefs.

restaurant, Antares. In India – where MasterChef is huge – she was a celebrity when she arrived. “Every day, there would be 40 people at the restaurant, asking for a picture,” she says.

“I started getting overwhelmed. Within six months, I started feeling like, ‘Do I even go into the restaurant today?’ ” Once, she was accosted by a rare displeased customer who told her “this is the

“I’ve always loved tennis and this is hands down one of the biggest ways to showcase what I’ve been doing.” SARAH TODD But extremely arduous days – sometimes working until 1am – left her with “grey skin” and hardly seeing her child. “So, I said to his dad, ‘If I apply for MasterChef and get in, can we move back to Australia?’ I got into the first round.”

The roller coaster hadn’t even begun. After MasterChef, Todd parted ways with Phoenix’s dad, moved to Goa, India and opened up her own

worst restaurant I’ve ever been to in my life”.

But that was offset by an opposite experience.

“I’d been exhausted, crying, and not seeing any light at the end of the tunnel,” Todd says.

“The next day, a girl came up to me and said, ‘My friend and I have driven for six hours to come and see you, and we’re so excited.’ When I walked over to the friend, she was bawling her eyes out because she

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was so inspired by what I’d been doing. It was this huge slap in the face. It was like, ‘This isn’t about you any more. You’re inspiring young girls to do big things.’”

A fire that burned down the original restaurant was “horrifying”, but Antares is back, and better than ever. And now Todd has the Australian Open to look forward to. She joins Donna Hay, Analiese Gregory and Duangporn “Bo” Songvisava for the 2020 AO Chef Series – each will host two dinners in The Glasshouse, opposite Melbourne Park, during the tournament. The chefs will chat diners through their menus, before the night matches.

“I’ve always loved tennis and this is hands down one of the biggest ways to showcase what I’ve been doing,” Todd says. “Australian cuisine for me is produce-based, and it’s a melting pot for multiple cuisines.” ● AUSTRALIAN OPEN AO CHEF SERIES \ Tickets on sale for dining sessions from January 20 to 27, 2020 ● ausopen.com/hospitality/packages/chefseries

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Auction Saturday 21st Dec. at 12.00pm Quote $600,000 - $660,000 View Wednesday 5.00 - 5.30pm Saturday 1.00 - 1.30pm Stuart Buckingham 0411 743 336 Daniel Cobern 0439 286 780 Office 104 Grimshaw St, Greensborough Phone 9435 0999

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Dr Stubbs formerly at the Royal Victorian Eye Hospital who has worked with the Fred Hollows eye department at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, says he began his career through the inspiration of his father, Dr Maxwell Stubbs. “My father was a pioneer in cataract implant surgery from 1963! He has now passed away but some of his patients still come in for a check-up. Not only is this inspirational, it also demonstrates that good surgery outlasts the surgeon,�

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