Caroline Wozniacki fires risk forward of comeback from retirement after dig

Wozniacki will make her highly-anticipated return to tennis on Tuesday – greater than three years after saying farewell on the 2020 Australian Open. The 33-year-old introduced her comeback in a Vogue essay again in June and can tackle Australia’s Kimberly Birrell on the WTA 1000 occasion in Montreal.

Ahead of her first match again, the 2018 Australian Open champion is feeling relaxed and warned the circuit that she was specializing in Flushing Meadows greater than Montreal, hoping to peak for the US Open. “Tennis-wise, I feel like I’m doing great in practice and it’s going to be just fine when I’m out there,” Wozniacki stated.

“So I’m not stressing. I’m not worried. It’s just about getting more and more matches in and the more I play the better I’m going to play. I hope that I’m going to be at my peak for the US Open.”

It comes as a risk to the remainder of the tour who’re hoping to win the ultimate Major of the yr, because the Dane has already beforehand spoken about how properly she’s been hitting the ball on the apply courtroom. But she additionally admitted that it could be totally different throughout an precise match.

She continued: “Realistically when you haven’t been on tour and haven’t played a match in so long, no matter how much you practice, how many practice sets you’ve done, you can never replicate being on a match court.”

But Wozniacki is trusting her recreation and her years of expertise as she added: “At this point in my career and a lot of the players’ careers that have been on tour for a long time, you know how to play your game.

Her fighting talk comes just weeks after she seemed to suggest that the current crop of women’s stars weren’t as challenging as Serena Williams. “There’s a lot of good players out there. But I played in an era with the greatest of all time – Serena – and she’s not around any more,” the previous world No 1 stated throughout Wimbledon.

“So that feels good to me at the moment. I am happy for Serena, she’s an amazing player. But I am happy not to have to play against her at this point.” Instead, Wozniacki may have the likes of world No 1 Iga Swiatek and up to date Washington champion Coco Gauff to compete with if she needs to return to the highest of the sport. For now, she can be specializing in Birrell earlier than attempting to go deep on the largest tournaments as soon as extra.