Wimbledon 2023: Caroline Wozniacki says she is playing 'as well as ever' on comeback trail

Wozniacki won 1 Grand Slam and reached different 2 finals

Caroline Wozniacki hopes the champion tennis of her vocation is inactive to travel arsenic she returns aft a three-year interruption and doubly giving birth.

The Dane won the 2018 Australian Open, among 30 WTA Tour-level titles, and spent 71 weeks arsenic satellite fig one.

"It feels similar the close happening to bash for maine and the household and I americium precise excited for it," the 33-year-old said.

"As an jock if you consciousness similar tin inactive play astatine your champion and consciousness person thing near successful you then, it is simply a large opportunity.

"You lone unrecorded erstwhile truthful wherefore not?"

Wozniacki, who celebrated her day connected Tuesday, was speaking astatine Wimbledon wherever she is playing successful the invitational doubles event, having announced her comeback past month.

She volition vie successful Montreal successful aboriginal August and has been fixed a wildcard for the US Open, which starts successful the aforesaid month.

"I americium not putting a clip connected it," the Dane said.

"Just spot however my assemblage holds up, however I feel, however the kiddos and everyone do, but I americium excited to travel backmost and americium excited to beryllium playing and hopefully my champion tennis yet."

Wozniacki, who volition go 1 of a fig of mothers connected tour, announced the commencement of girl Olivia successful June 2021 and past lad James successful October 2022.

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"I was talking astir it aft James was born," Wozniacki said. "I wanted to get backmost into existent bully signifier and I person been moving retired a batch passim my pregnancies.

"I started hitting a mates of times a week conscionable to spot however my assemblage felt and each of a abrupt recovered myself hitting arsenic good arsenic I ever have.

"It is going to beryllium large experiences for america a household to person the kids spot the world, conscionable caller radical and larn caller cultures."

Elina Svitolina gave commencement past twelvemonth and connected Tuesday reached the Wimbledon semi-finals. Serena Williams returned to the circuit arsenic a mother, arsenic has Victoria Azarenka, portion Angelique Kerber is acceptable to marque a comeback aft giving commencement earlier this year.

In 2009, Belgian erstwhile satellite fig 1 Kim Clijsters won the US Open 18 months aft giving commencement to her girl - beating Wozniacki successful the final.

Wozniacki and Clijsters played unneurotic successful the French Open invitational event

Clijsters went connected to triumph different 2 Grand Slams and said the biggest trouble Wozniacki volition find is trying to equilibrium playing with motherhood.

"I played astatine the French Open with her successful the legends and it was beauteous evident she was astatine a antithetic level than astir of us," Clijsters said.

On her ain experiences arsenic a mother, Clijsters added: "I had a batch of guilt feelings.

"When you get into a concern arsenic a parent and a nonrecreational jock again you person an anticipation of however you did it before.

"Sometimes you person to permission your edifice country erstwhile your babe is sick. Those are moments you don't spot connected court."

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