Three years ago I achieved my childhood tennis dream when I was triumphant on the famous Wimbledon grasscourts. Winning that tournament was amazing but the two weeks of tennis left me fatigued. However, there was something else important on the horizon, a tournament that I simply had to turn my attention to – the Tokyo Olympics.

Tennis is a truly global sport, but the Olympics is the pinnacle for so many other elite athletes. There wasn’t really a question of choosing not to play after I’d been selected for Australia.

Barty and Peers are bronze medallists.Credit: AP

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