Ash Barty and Gary Kissick hope for ace result after putting Melbourne base up for sale
Aussie tennis great Ash Barty and her golfing pro husband Gary Kissick are selling the Melbourne townhouse they’ve used as a home away from home. Take a peek inside.
Aussie tennis champ Ash Barty and her husband Gary Kissick are selling the South Yarra home they’ve been using as a Melbourne base since 2022.
Barty is one of Australia’s most successful tennis players this century, winning 15 singles titles in her career including the Australian Open in 2022, Wimbledon in 2021 and the French Open in 2019.
She also won the US Open women’s doubles alongside Coco Vandewegh in 2018, one of 12 titles she claimed with a partner.
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Barty also spent a season playing Big Bash League cricket with the Brisbane Heat.
Australia’s last No. 1 ranked women’s tennis player, she announced her retirement from tennis at the age of 25 in 2022, shortly after winning the Australian Open.
A month after she retired, the sporting legend and her husband quietly bought a three-bedroom South Yarra townhouse they have since renovated.
The 68A Nicholson St property has subsequently been a base for them while in Melbourne, including for Kissick while he plays golfing tournaments and caddies for Louis Dobbelaar.
But after a Christmas announcement that the couple are expecting their second child, they decided to list the home for sale.
Jellis Craig’s Nathan Waterson is handling the listing and said they were hoping for an “ace” result, with a $1.85m-$2m asking price ahead of an auction slated for March 1.
Mr Waterson said the pair had certainly added value since buying the home, with updates to the home’s kitchen and two bathrooms.
They have also refurbished the double-storey residences staircase and redone its floors.
“From the front door to the back, it’s been improved,” he said.
The agent added that with the home zoned for popular South Yarra Primary School and close to an array of private schools, as well as Fawkner Park, he was expecting young professionals to find plenty to love about the home.
“The other important qualities are the home’s great natural light, upstairs and down, and it is also very secure with off-street parking, which is a rarity in that area,” Mr Waterson said.
“So we are looking for an ace result.”
In June last year, Barty’s coach Craig Tyzzer sold his long-time family home in Mt Waverley for $2.258m.
Tyzzer was ranked the Women’s Tennis Association’s coach of the year in 2019 for his work with Barty, which commenced in 2016 and continued until her retirement.
While selling the home, Tyzzer revealed he’d made a lolly bowl out of a Tiffany trophy awarded to himself and Pat Cash for their efforts coaching Barty and Coco Vandewegh to victory in the 2018 US Open women’s doubles.
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