‘‘I could never tell you at the end of the year how much prize money,’’ she said. ‘‘However, I could tell you exactly how many matches I won and lost.’’

Bartoli is now designing shoes and jewelry. She lately has been caring for her father and longtime coach, Walter, who she said has been hospitalized because of an illness.

For that reason, she said she wanted to be close to home and him as much as possible. She is working here as a television commentator in two languages: in French for Eurosport and in English for the British network ITV, for whom she has often been paired with John Inverdale, the British commentator who has been apologizing for nearly a year after making an unflattering reference to Bartoli’s looks when working for the BBC during Wimbledon.

Bartoli has occupied the high road since it happened, which might be considered a missed opportunity to make an important point if Inverdale, long a respected commentator, had not been so frequently skewered by others.

“I didn’t react more because for me, it served no purpose; it would only have fed the controversy,” Bartoli said. “For me, what mattered most was that I had my joy, my joy to have won the tournament I’d been waiting for 20 years to win. That’s all that counted. When I woke up every morning, I had the sun shining on my trophy in front of me. That was happiness. The rest I could have cared less.”

Inverdale’s comment involved a comparison of Bartoli and Maria Sharapova: “I just wonder if her Dad did say to her when she was 12, 13, 14: ‘Listen, you’re never going to be a looker. You are never going to be somebody like a Sharapova. You’re never going to be 5 feet 11. You’re never going to be somebody with long legs, so you have to compensate for that.”

Bartoli has said that she understood that Inverdale, with whom she is friendly, was trying to make a point about making the best of the strengths you possess. But she also contends that it is not ideal that talented female athletes are marketed on the basis of their looks — and also pursued and signed by management agencies, sometimes at an early age, partly on that basis.