By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, June 24, 2024
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Ajla Tomljanovic will proceed her comeback at Wimbledon.
Two-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist Tomljanovic has been awarded a main-draw Wimbledon wild card, the All England Garden Tennis Membership introduced at the moment.
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The 31-year-old Tomljanovc reached back-to-back Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2021 and 2022.
Final week, Tomljanovic reached the Birmingham last grass bowing to Yulia Putintseva.
It was Tomljanovic’s first Tour-level last because the 2019 Hua Hin.
Final February, Tomljanovic introduced she can be placing her tennis profession on maintain after present process surgical procedure to take away non-cancerous tumors from her uterus.
“Good day everybody, sadly, I received’t be competing for a few weeks … was very a lot trying ahead to the following arduous courtroom occasions,” Tomljanovic mentioned in an Instagram publish accompanied by a photograph of her flashing a peace signal from a hospital mattress.
“I needed to get some uterine fibroids eliminated and shall be watching from house whereas therapeutic. Shall be again quickly.”
Contesting her fourth event since that surgical procedure, Tomljanovic got here up large in Birmingham and was rewarded with the Wimbledon wild card.
4 of the eight Wimbledon girls’ wild card recipients—Angelique Kerber, Naomi Osaka, Briton Emma Raducanu and Caroline Wozniacki—are former Grand Slam champions. Osaka, Kerber and Wozniacki every returned to the professional Tour after giving beginning.
4 British ladies—Francesca Jones, Yuriko Lily Miyazaki, Heather Watson and Raducanu—obtained main-draw wild playing cards.
The Wimbledon primary draw is about for July 1-14th.