By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Pursuing perfection is like sparring together with your shadow: You'll by no means land utterly cleanly.

Three matches into her bold comeback, Caroline Wozniacki is studying she nonetheless has the spirit for the battle, however her sport could be very a lot a piece in progress.

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World No. 45 Varvara Gracheva swept Wozniacki 6-4, 6-4 in her Cincinnati opener in the present day.

Former world No. 1 was outplayed on strain factors: Gracheva saved all 9 break factors she confronted.

Afterward, Wozniacki, who fell to 1-2 in her comeback, conceded she was dissatisfied.

"In general I didn't think I played very well. I think I didn't really find my rhythm," Wozniacki mentioned. "Didn't feel like I played as I could, but, you know, I tried to fight and it was one break in each set. 

"I simply did not return properly sufficient both. I had 9 breakpoints and received none of them. That's simply not adequate while you're taking part in in opposition to gamers on this degree. Yeah, we'll must work on that."

The 33-year-old mother of two is trying to play off her front foot more frequently.

While Wozniacki was encouraged following her 6-2, 7-5 loss to Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova in Montreal last week, she didn't play proactive tennis at pivotal points today.

In the pursuit of perfection there is no finish line. Wozniacki said she needs time, patience and more match play to take her game to a higher level, but vows her self-belief remains undiminished.

"I consider in myself, and I consider that I can. Obviously it is simply taking me a bit of little bit of time simply to get used to the matches once more and competing in actual tournaments," Wozniacki said. "But, , I do not actually really feel the expectations from everybody else. I feel I've all the time simply been, , robust on myself. I'm on the lookout for perfection, which isn't potential on this sport, however, , simply gonna work laborious and attempt to play higher and higher."

Wozniacki mentioned she deliberate to remain in Cincinnati and hit the apply courts earlier than touring to New York the place she has a wild card for the US Open, which begins on August twenty eighth.

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