Jennifer Brady Comeback Begins with Winning Start in DC
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Jennifer Brady Comeback Begins with Winning Start in DC

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Jennifer Brady Comeback Begins with Winning Start in DC

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Jennifer Brady is again. 

 

After an extended and sometimes tough harm layoff for the final two years, the previous 2021 Australian Open finalist performed her first WTA foremost draw match in two years at this week’s WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open occasion.

 

Brady, who was as soon as ranked as excessive as World No. 13, loved a simple 6-2, 6-1 opening spherical win over present World No. 28 Anhelina Kalinia. 

 

 

Brady, who admitted she was not totally certain how her first match would go, was very happy general along with her efficiency.

 

“I had the game plan. I was able to execute everything that I wanted to,” Brady told the media afterward. “Maybe I played a little bit better, a lot more solid than I was expecting but I was really happy with my performance from the beginning of the match all the way to the end.”

 

To say the highway again has been powerful for Brady over the past two years could be an understatement.

 

The 28-year-old Harrisburg, PA native reached the 2020 US Open semifinals after which the 2021 Australian Open finals. From there, Brady appeared poised to change into the following huge factor in tennis.

 

Then every part modified a couple of months later.

 

In her final WTA match again at Cincinnati in 2021, she retired in opposition to Jelena Ostapenko with a foot harm that was later identified as a torn plantar fascia additionally mixed with a stress fracture in her proper knee.

While Brady hoped for a speedy restoration, that was not meant to be.

 

Instead, Brady endured ache for 2 years, a number of medical doctors’ visits, after which eventual surgical procedure to alleviate one other separate knee subject. Yet even after that surgical procedure, she continued to wrestle with knee and foot ache. Throughout the ordeal, Brady typically questioned if she would ever play once more.

 

After lastly getting on the trail to 100% well being, Brady thought she would be capable to compete at this yr’s Roland Garros.

 

Yet, a couple of days earlier than she was set to go to Paris, Brady suffered a bone bruise on her foot. Doctors suggested her to not play so it might heal correctly. That in the end delayed her comeback till this summer time the place she performed in Granby, Canada at an ITF occasion.

 

 

 

During her layoff, Brady reached out to a number of gamers on tour with related accidents for assist and recommendation. 

 

“I talked to a bit was Dasha Gavrilova. So because she’s come back from so many injuries and she’s been able to get her back,” Brady stated. “Get herself again to the highest and she or he’s she simply got here again from an ACL simply now and she or he began taking part in once more. She was a extremely good individual to get some good recommendation from.”

 

Having not performed precise matches in so lengthy, Brady needed to get used to being nervous, embracing that feeling, and even counting on match reminiscences from her earlier time on tour.

 

“You know, it’s tough. In the beginning of the match, I’m extremely nervous,” Brady stated. “It’s just a different feeling that I haven’t felt for so long.

“And , it is one thing that, , I take pleasure in feeling simply nerves. My legs feeling a little bit bit out of kinds. And simply type of working my method right into a match and discovering a method I’d say simply, embracing these feelings and embracing the second and actually simply having fun with it.”

 

 

 

While Brady might have needed to return again sooner, maybe it is becoming that she does so in the course of the summer time swing within the United States the place followers have been desirous to see her return.

 

“I couldn’t have asked for anything better,” Brady stated. “I like taking part in at dwelling. I like taking part in within the States and the entire assist that I’ve gotten up to now couple of days it has been wonderful and all people is absolutely, actually supporting me.”

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