“She just put her head down and went super hard. I feel the hardest thing was trying to motivate her to get a spark to go,‘hey,you need to be out there’ because she was so relaxed and so easygoing with it all,it was almost like she didn’t care whether she won or lost.

“But she obviously did. But yeah. I think the Australian summer was for everyone else and not for her.”

Tyzzer said the race for the Grand Slam record in men’s tennis,with three players having 20 or more to their name,was at odds with Barty’s approach to success and validation.

“I think it speaks volumes for who she is. How many Grand Slams are enough? I mean,we’re amazed at we’ve seen... Rafa (Nadal),you know,at the French and what he’s done. But it was never about the success,it was about fulfilling Ash’s dreams. We did that.”