Caroline Wozniacki.| Photo Credit: AP

Former No. 1-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has been awarded one of many first wild playing cards for the 2024 Australian Open and is planning on bringing her two younger kids to the scene of her greatest Grand Slam triumph.

Wozniacki, the 2018 Australian Open girls’s champion, and 6 Australian gamers had been granted the primary batch of untamed playing cards.

The 33-year-old Wozniacki returned to top-flight tennis in August after greater than three years off the tour. She performed in Montreal and Cincinnati earlier than making a run to the fourth spherical of the U.S. Open, the place she misplaced to eventual champion Coco Gauff.

“I have so many wonderful memories of Melbourne, and of course winning the Australian Open is an all-time career highlight,” Wozniacki, who was ranked No. 242 this week, instructed Australian Open organizers on Wednesday.

Wozniacki received her solely Grand Slam singles title in Australia two years earlier than she left the game in early 2020 to begin a household. She frolicked working as a TV analyst, and now she and former NBA participant David Lee are the mother and father of two kids.

Wozniacki stated she deliberate to journey to the match at Melbourne Park together with her daughter, Olivia, and her son, James.

“I can’t wait to share it with my household and my youngsters," she stated.

Tournament director Craig Tiley introduced in October that three former Australian Open champions — Naomi Osaka, Wozniacki and Angelique Kerber — had been set to return to the 12 months's first main following maternity depart.