Caroline Wozniacki Announces Return to Tennis for 2023 US Open After Retiring in 2020

Caroline Wozniacki is doing a Tom Brady.

The Danish tennis huge title announced Thursday in an interview with Corey Seymour of Vogue that she is returning to the sport after pronouncing her retirement in 2020 to originate a family.

And 23-time Huge Slam champion Serena Williams used to be one in all the first folks to learn of her decision to return to the sport.

“Wow—real for you,” Williams told Wozniacki when she told her about her return to tennis over dinner. “I will cheer you on every step of the sort, and whenever you happen to ever need the rest, I am right here.”

Wozniacki mentioned she intends to compete within the 2023 U.S. Inaugurate later this summer and has role a goal of playing within the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Wozniacki announced her retirement earlier than the 2020 Australian Inaugurate and he or she went on to contain two youngsters—daughter Olivia and son James—with her husband, historical NBA player David Lee.

In her allotment with Vogue, she brought consideration to the reality that several girls contain returned to the sport after having youngsters, including Williams, who announced her retirement final summer.

Wozniacki wrote:

“Let’s also realize: Many of the males on tour should always not decide to retire to contain a family—they’ll play through. You had Roger [Federer], who had four youngsters whereas playing. Novak [Djokovic] has two, and Rafa [Nadal] has a little one; [Andy] Murray has four. For the girls, despite the reality that, or no longer it’s largely been both/or, and I’d decide to be allotment of altering this. Victoria Azarenka, Kim Clijsters, and Serena contain already shown what it takes to contain a little one and return to the tour. It’s no longer straightforward by any skill, but it indubitably is possible.

“Am I apprehensive? Now not genuinely. I am coming abet to one thing I love. Positive, I would maybe be apprehensive earlier than a match; I am okay with that. I am necessary with that. Can I procure the US Inaugurate? I mediate so. Can I procure the Australian Inaugurate? I mediate so. That’s why I am doing this. And I assume we’ll look what happens. I mediate or no longer it’s a perfect memoir. I mediate or no longer it’s awesome.”

While Wozniacki wished to originate a family, she also used to be identified with rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, correct two years earlier than her retirement.

Wozniacki mentioned in her preliminary retirement post that her decision wasn’t based totally on her effectively being. However, she unfolded in regards to the ache she has experienced from the disease in her allotment with Vogue.

“My rheumatologist and I came up with a notion: I’d rob unprecedented care to roam, dash, swim — the rest, genuinely — correct to tackle my joints sharp; I’d hydrate myself relentlessly and indulge in a actually particular form of anti-inflammatory weight loss program,” Wozniacki mentioned. “It used to be delicate and exact, but efficient — until I reached a level where the total route of grew to turn out to be too exhausting: keeping tabs on each detail of what I ate, how essential water I’d been drinking; inserting within the total hours, day by day, on the courtroom and within the gymnasium and monitoring my restoration and touring. That’s as soon as I knew I needed a ruin.”

The licensed world No. 1 received 30 singles titles earlier than retiring in 2020. She received the 2018 Australian Inaugurate in opposition to Simona Halep and 2017 WTA Finals in Singapore in opposition to Venus Williams.

The 2023 US Inaugurate begins on Aug. 28 and runs through Sept. 10. All eyes would maybe be on Wozniacki has she joins a growing checklist of mothers to compete on the WTA Tour, including Victoria Azarenka, Elina Svitolina and Taylor Townsend.