TORONTO — Canadian tennis player Aleksandra Wozniak is returning after an 11-month injury layoff.
Tennis Canada said Wednesday that Wozniak, the Blainville, Quebec, player once ranked No. 21 in the world, will play a Challenger Series event in Winnipeg, Manitoba, starting Aug. 22. The 27-year-old Wozniak, currently ranked 696th on the WTA Tour, has not played since undergoing surgery on her right shoulder in September.
She reached her career-high ranking in 2009, when she advanced to the fourth round of the French Open, the third round of the U.S. Open and the final of a tournament at Ponte Vedra Beach, where she lost to Caroline Wozniacki.