- Australian world No 1 retains title she won in 2019
- Novak Djokovic and Dylan Alcott also win awards
Ash Barty has been crowned the 2021 world champion of women’s tennis by the sport’s governing body, the latest of a host of accolades heaped on the Australian after her dazzling year.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) bestowed their prized annual end-of-year honour on the 25-year-old Queenslander on Thursday, announcing that Barty had retained the title that she last won in 2019.