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Victoria Azarenka announces tennis comeback

Former world number-one Victoria Azarenka says she is ready to return to tennis after the birth of her son.

The two-time grand slam winner said on Monday she is “ready to start competing” again, plans to target Wimbledon by taking part in one of the grass-court events that precede and will soon finalise her schedule before Wimbled

The 27-year-old Belarussian won the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013 and was beaten by Serena Williams in the US Open final in those same years.

Williams will miss Wimbledon this year after announcing her own pregnancy last month.

“My training has been progressing well and I feel ready to start competing,” Azarenka, who has not played since announcing her pregnancy in July 2016, said on Twitter.

Her son, Leo, was born in December.

“I will be finalising my schedule before Wimbledon in the coming days —I plan to play one of the grass court events prior to Wimbledon,” she said.

Meanwhile, Williams, 35, is regularly documenting her pregnancy on social media.

She posted the picture below at the weekend, in which she is around 24-weeks pregnant.

The tennis superstar accidentally announced her pregnancy in April, 2017 after uploading a photo onto SnapChat and later confirmed she had found out she was pregnant two days before the 2017 Australian Open.

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