'I can beat anyone': Caroline Wozniacki comeback in full force after stunning US Open display

Caroline Wozniacki's comeback seems to be in full swing. The Dane impressed in the US Open, not losing a set on her way to the third round.

Following her win, the former number one was feeling good about her chances in New York. "I feel good. I have been playing for a year, and it has been quite an adjustment for the body. But I feel good, and I believe that if I play the best I can, I am capable of defeating anyone," she said as reported by the US Open official website.

"My expectation when starting this comeback was to give it my all, work hard, and play the best possible in every match. I feel that I have done that, so I am very proud of it."

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It comes as the former world number one made tentative steps to return to the game last year after a three-and-a-half-year hiatus from the sport to focus on being a mother. It has not been an easy road, though. 

She is one of a few high-profile players in the game to take considerable time out from the court, but unlike Naomi Osaka or Angelique Kerber, Wozniacki does not have a protected ranking and had been relying on wildcards to enter the big tournaments.

While she has been able to pick up a number of these, she was turned down from the Italian and French Open in May, a move that led her father and coach Piotr Wozniacki to call out the WTA earlier this year in the press for the lack of support and respect given to his daughter, as reported by Sportskeeda. 

While Caroline has downplayed this, she does think more needs to be done to help mothers get back into the sport. "I think I've been treated very well," she told the PA News Agency. "The tournaments have really embraced me coming back and with kids". 

"Where I do share my view, and where a lot of other women on tour share the view, is I think there should be more done for women coming back from maternity leave. It has been looked at because obviously there are more players now that want to come back but, at the same time, it's not the same as coming back from an injury," she explained on the eve of her Wimbledon return in July.

"As someone who came back after almost four years, I think when you give birth and for the body to recover, you've grown a human inside you, there's a lot of changes that are happening in the body after that. I think in general women deserve more time to feel, 'OK, now I'm ready, I can really prepare and get ready for competing at the highest level'."

"It's just so special and something I never thought I'd have the opportunity to do," she told PA. "It's very hard as well because it's like having two full-time jobs. It's definitely exhausting, but it's definitely worth it."

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