"A destiny fulfilled."
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That's how renowned tennis commentator Sam Smith described Ash Barty's Wimbledon coronation upon winning match point and it's hard to disagree.
Women's tennis world number one took it upon herself to try and make Evonne Goolagong-Cawley proud on the 50th anniversary of her first Wimbledon title - and in doing so, made Australia fall in love with her even more.
You see, it hasn't always gone easy for Ash.
Winning the junior Wimbledon title 10 years ago at the age of 15, she became touted as the next big thing and while she was having regular success on the doubles court with Casey Dellacqua - reaching two Grand Slam finals in 2013 - it hadn't come together in singles.
Her time off is well documented, spending just over a year living a semi-regular life and playing cricket for the Brisbane Heat in the WBBL as it was feared we'd lose her from tennis forever.
But the fire came back, and the results flew fast.
Since returning to singles in May 2016, Barty holds a record of 12-6 in tournament finals, winning two Grand Slams - the 2019 French Open and this year's Wimbledon - and the 2019 WTA Finals event, ending the year at world number one.
She truly is an inspiring Australian, and while in 2019 I wrote that she "deserved more love", she is certainly getting it in spades now.
Her final, which started at 11pm Saturday night before finishing at 1.04am on Sunday, averaged more than two million viewers - one in 13 Australians watching at that time.
Her win also spread into the press conferences of other sports, with fellow Indigenous athlete and soon-to-be Olympic teammate Patty Mills asked about Barty's victory.
And this was after hitting a match-winning, buzzer-beating three-point shot.
"This is special, this is goosebumps-type stuff - I'm getting emotional right here - more for that than our game," he said.
"Forty-one years since the last Australian woman to win Wimbledon and that was Evonne Goolagong-Cawley, 50 years since her first Wimbledon title.
"She does it in a dress that's inspired by her idol in Evonne, during NAIDOC week - there's all these things that just give you goosebumps when you're talking about it.
"[She's] an amazing inspiration for everyone in Australia, especially Indigenous Australians."
As Mills eluded to, the timing of NAIDOC Week, celebrating the history, culture and achievement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, couldn't have been any better as our first-nation athletes starred globally.
Barty winning Wimbledon, Mills starring for Australia as well as being named flagbearer at the Olympics and UFC fighter Tai Tiuvasa from Western Sydney winning his pay-per-view heavyweight fight in just over a minute.
But Barty has given herself no time to bask in her glory, straight into singles and doubles preparation for Tokyo.