By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday June 24, 2024
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Ajla Tomljanovic will proceed her comeback at Wimbledon.
Two-time Wimbledon quarter-finalist Tomljanovic has been given a Wimbledon wildcard for the primary draw, the All England Garden Tennis Membership introduced as we speak.
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The 31-year-old Tomljanovc reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals back-to-back in 2021 and 2022.
Final week, Tomljanovic reached the ultimate grass in Birmingham by bowing to Yulia Putintseva.
It was Tomljanovic’s first Tour-level ultimate since Hua Hin of 2019.
Final February, Tomljanovic introduced she would retire from her tennis profession after present process surgical procedure to take away benign tumors from her uterus.
“Hello everybody, sadly I will not be competing for just a few weeks… I used to be actually wanting ahead to the subsequent exhausting court docket occasions,” Tomljanovic stated in an Instagram publish, accompanied by a photograph of her exhibiting a peace signal from a hospital mattress.
“I needed to have some uterine fibroids eliminated and will probably be watching at house whereas I heal. Be proper again.”
In her fourth match since that operation, Tomljanovic made an enormous impression in Birmingham and was rewarded with the Wimbledon wildcard.
4 of the eight Wimbledon ladies’s wildcard recipients:Angelique Kerber, Naomi Osaka, Brit Emma Raducanu And Caroline Wozniacki– are former Grand Slam champions. Osaka, Kerber and Wozniacki every returned to the skilled Tour after giving start.
4 British ladies—Francesca Jones, Yuriko Lily Miyazaki, Heather Watson And Raducano-received wildcards for the primary match.
The Wimbledon essential draw takes place from July 1 to 14.