About a month ago Caroline’s dad WozniackiPiotr, stirred things up, harshly attacking the organizers of Rome and Roland Garros but above all the WTA, denouncing the lack of support for players returning to competitive activity after maternity leave: “My daughter doesn’t have a protected ranking because she had a long break.
Alright then. But isn’t it worth helping such a girl if she decides to return? The WTA believes it will not act. Caroline was number one in the rankings and helped increase the popularity of tennis but it turns out she is no longer welcome.
This happens because today in tennis everything is based only on relationships, on knowledge, and not on clear rules”, he declared to sport.pl. Wozniacki, who appeared calmer and more calm than her father, returned to the topic after some time : “We all know my father, I know him better than anyone, and we know that sometimes he goes a little ahead and says things he doesn’t mean.
If you ask me, I think the tour has treated me very well since I came back, the tournaments have embraced me after being a mother.”
Wozniacki is frank: “They should do more for athletes who have been mothers”
But then he has his say on the topic, which has generated so much controversy: “From my perspective, and I think this is shared by many other players on the tour who have been mothers, I think the tour should do a lot more for women returning from motherhood.
Of course, the situation has improved, now there are many more players who are encouraged to come back, but it can be treated the same way as when you come back from an injury.“, he confessed in an interview with Eurosport.
“It’s a very different perception for someone who comes back almost four years later: after giving birth it takes a long time for the body to recover, because a new life has been created. There are so many changes that happen in the body after something like that, I would say that women need more time to return to the same sensations they had before.
Luckily I think I’m at that point, I can prepare to compete at the highest level”, she declared. The 33-year-old former number 1 will be involved this week in the WTA 500 in Bad Homburg: “Right now my mission is to prepare myself as best as possible for Wimbledon, that’s my main goal, then we’ll see how things go there, but I believe in myself a lot. I believe that when I play my best tennis I can beat anyone, especially on grass”, he concluded.
