Ajla Tomljanović is satisfied “particular issues can occur” this summer season when she strives to proper the wrongs of a disappointing 10 months out of the sport.
Key factors:
- A knee damage noticed Tomljanović dominated out of this yr’s Australian Open
- She has reached the quarterfinals on the majors on three events
- Tomljanović will contest the United Cup beginning later this month
Virtually a yr after being compelled out of the Australian Open with a knee damage, Tomljanović is lastly again and feeling upbeat once more.
A 3-time quarterfinalist on the majors, Tomljanović might want to use a protected rating to make the Australian Open major draw at Melbourne Park.
However she is adamant she will scale the heights once more after regaining confidence in her motion following surgical procedure in January.
“I actually do imagine that I can get again to that degree [of contending for majors] if I get wholesome, which I imagine I am already there,” Tomljanović stated.
“Perhaps there’s 15 per cent left that I nonetheless have to get again to, however I feel it’s inside my attain.”
Tomljanović was flying in 2022 earlier than damage struck her down, changing into the primary Australian since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1979 to succeed in the Wimbledon and US Open quarterfinals in the identical yr.
She additionally famously ended Serena Williams’s incomparable profession on the US Open to crown a heady 14 months of three last-eight main appearances.
Whereas retaining a degree of frustration at presumably being robbed of her finest years, a hearty dose of perspective is now driving Tomljanović’s comeback from the “scary” realisation that her profession could also be over.
“I might be mendacity if this yr there have not been random moments the place I used to be with my group and I am like, ‘That is simply so unfortunate what occurred as a result of I used to be at my finest and I acquired so unfortunate’,” Tomljanović stated.
“You’ll be able to’t management this damage, and the doubt and the worry was at all times that perhaps this will likely be it.
“However I can not stay previously, and I felt silly calling it unfair when there have been wars taking place on the planet and youngsters dying.
“So I in a short time acquired it out of my system.
“I simply need to settle for it and transfer ahead and simply imagine that if I get wholesome I can nonetheless play my finest tennis.
“And if I did not suppose that, I in all probability would not hold making an attempt.”
Tomljanović will launch her summer season spearheading Australia’s United Cup marketing campaign in Perth from December 29.
AAP
