the world's top ranked female tennis player, australia's ash bardy, has unexpectedly retired from the game at the age of 25 bardy announced her decision just weeks after becoming the 1st australian to win the australian open in 44 years. already says she's leaving the game to chase other dreams clutching a trophy, ash bodies last outing was as the newly crowned australian open chevy. she celebrated breaking the striving drought with bubbles in melbourne. but as the rest of the world was wondering how many more she could add to her total of 3 grand slams, she shed the red dress and returned to the red center of the country to try and inspire the next aboriginal grand slam champion. jack. yeah, i was giving an unvarnished glimpse of where her next set of dreams lay along the way unfulfilled. i'm happy and i know how much work it takes 2 to bring the best out of yourself and i've set it to my team. um multiple times. it's just, i don't have that in me anymore. she leaves the sport as it's number one ranked player. a french open wimbleton, and very much an australian champion who leaves a

but bardy said she was leaving the game to chase other dreams. anthony howard from the to the sports is with us on the story. hi, anthony. it's a high seems to come as, as a shock. was there any sign that this was coming? it's possible to hunt for clues, like anything in the way that she's approached a career and a lot before it. contrast it to the way the men are doing it to me. so revenue $1.35 chasing cuddle number $22.00. fighting roger federer at another job which federal 40 bleeding into we socks on bad knees. chasing more titles, he wants more more more. think about them. what ash did in 2019 she won the french open for that's what she did or didn't do the next year. she didn't go back in the faith. she chose to, to stay in australia during the covey times and take it easy. there was a famous shot of her as outside of this, with the trophy is when she went to the football in australia. and she can be seen in the stands clenched fist with one hand, and holding a beer and the other shouting for her team. the richmond tigers. you think she co

after 3 grand slam victories, australia's ashley bardy shocks the sports world by calling it quits in the prime of her career. will tell you why. i i'm semi so misconduct. glad you could join us. ukraine has calling on russia to allow civilians to escape the southern port of muddy who poke. the local council says russian forces who surrounded the city have reduced a to ashes with constant bombing. president polar mersa lensky says, 800000 civilians are trapped without food. water or medicaid. so lensky says, russian forces sees a humanitarian convoy attempting to bring relief to mario balls besieged residence . mm. bombs. keep falling on money. you pull. the besieged city is under relentless shelling by russian forces. satellite pictures show the extent of the devastation. apartment buildings burnt out. a metal factory shelled. hundreds of thousands of people are still stuck here under the falling bombs tunnel nazi dean at the moment there around 100000 people living in mario pole under inhumane conditions under a complete siege without food, water and medicine under constant shelling

ashley bardi -- ashleigh barty has decided to retire. she has won three grand slam finals. she says she no longer has the physical and emotional drive to play at the top. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> everyone wants to get back to normality. thankfully, we are going in the right direction with regards to all the parameters of infection, hospitalizations, and death, so we can assume a degree of normality. that is what we all want. we have been in this long enough, but we cannot claim absolute victory at this point. jonathan: dr. fauci they're speaking yesterday from new york city. good morning, your equity market down about .4% of the s&p met the nasdaq down .6%. yields coming in a couple basis points down. a selloff in the treasury market settles down. the rally in the crude market continues. up by 2.5%. more than a third of last week's u.s. covid-19 cases were caused by the omicron ba.2 subvariant. something to worry abo

one women's player in the world tennis falling last week. surprised retirement announcement by ash bardy polish player who is only 20 years old. had to win her 2nd round, match to miami, opens the scary top spot. and then the rankings are released. she dropped just to games is straight for victory over toria, bitch. my goal right now is going to be there tuesday in both place and the continue, what i was doing, i'm actually, you know, even though everything around is pretty special right now. and people are really pumped up. i want to stay cool and just, you know, play this tournament well, so, um there's gonna be time for separation. right now we go to folks from work. okay, and that is all your support for now. back to you camp. thank you for that. as the news aren't on go away though molly's, i will be back with you in just a moment. we'll find more of the day's news by fidel ah, harmful pathogens are increasingly affecting our lives with terrible consequences. a new documentary asks why that we've learned any lessons from the h. i. v. epidemic in the fight against coven 19. 0, how we

why i take who also won the previous turn method indian wells is replacing the retired ash bardy as the world. number one, a man succeed alexander's of rab, also east through his 3rd round match. he saw of american mackenzie macdonald in straits to reach the last 16. okay. and that is all your sport for now. back to you, kim. beg you are. well, the 94th academy awards and hollywood was back towards the pre pandemic dilemma with a full house of vaccinated guests and tested nominees and present is but the night will likely be remembered. ford's unscripted drama. how does your castro with this report from los angeles? are you excited to announce best? yes. oscar goes to ok. coda. the independent film kuda was the underdog winter of the best picture. oscar breaking new ground as the 1st film produced by a streaming service to win best picture, and with its mostly death cast, including troy cut sir, who made history as the 1st deaf man to win an oscar for best supporting actor. i just wanted to say that this is dedicated to the deaf community, the kodak community, i'm a disabled community. t

and depending on what the number one player, what integral player ash bardy does, who won the australian open the 1st day of the year. but depending on her schedule, it's not at all beyond the realm of possibility that is frantically 20 years old. we'll take over the, the number one spot. so we received some players break through it. big events, and sometimes they, i, it's, it's a jumping off point. another type out of a lightning in a bottle one, hit wonder, and it seems very clear that die ega context case that french open titled as you put it very well, that was no. so let's stay with the women's game and look ahead to this week, sir. miami, open, miami or soccer returns after cheerful exeter, to indian wells, and, and given her struggles with mental health over the past years, or how do you assess her immediate future in the game? it is a great question is, is a question that vexes a lot of people, i think not least by o b, a soccer field, rec number 77, which is i know 76 spots lower than the writing. she had not that long ago. and i think, you know, she's going back to miami it's,