Ash Barty has left Australia in the dark over what her next steps off the tennis court will be, saying "you'll have to wait and see".
The world number one and three-time grand slam winner shocked the world and retired on Wednesday at age 25.
Speaking alongside her coach Craig Tyzzer on Thursday, she revealed her retirement was set before she had "one last crack" and marched to her Australian Open title.
She said, however, she did initially hope her last game would be in green and gold for a home Fed Cup fixture.
"The Australian public allowed me to be myself. They allowed me to make mistakes. They allowed me to be imperfect," she said.
"It really did make that Australian Open so much more enjoyable for all of us to be able to go, 'you know what, this is one last crack, let's see what we can do'.
"It was really cool."
Australia could have been given one more glimpse at Barty if Australia's Fed Cup qualifier tie against Slovakia set for mid-April was not derailed.
The Russian Tennis Federation was suspended from participation in ITF team competitions and as the 2021 champions, the RTF team had qualified automatically for the 2022 Cup finals. Instead the finals position was granted to Australia as the highest-ranked team to exit in the 2021 semifinals, negating a need for the match against Slovakia.
Barty's focus will shift to her family, being at home in Queensland and her goals off the court in retirement, but she remained tight lipped about what her those goals were for her future.
And about her wedding, stating a wedding date with fiance Garry Kissick had been set but the public would have to wait and see.
Fans had put together mock images online of Barty playing various other sports, hoping her retirement could follow a similar line to her hiatus in 2015 where she played in the WBBL.
She said she had seen some of the photoshop jobs but when prompted about what her other goals where she remained coy.
"You'll have to wait and see. Be patient," she chuckled.
"I'm a sport nut like a lot of Australians are. I'll be glued to it, I've always been an athlete in the sense of trying different things, but we'll see how we go."
Barty reiterated she was an open book and was not hiding anything, and she was retiring because it was the right time for her to do so.
Tyzzer admitted he wasn't surprised by Barty's decision, given she had cheekily asked if she could retire after her 2019 French Open victory and that her limp Olympic singles campaign last year had been telling.
"After [winning] Wimbledon that was an obvious goal for us and once she achieved it and once we got to the Olympics, it sort of hit home for me that there wasn't much left in her," he said.
"The motivation wasn't there, except when she played doubles with Storm [Sanders] and mixed with John Peers, her singles really went by the wayside.
"She wasn't fussed. So I felt that she had climbed where she needed to get to and it was going to be a hard slog to keep her involved."