Caroline Wozniacki Is Getting Very Good at Comebacks

Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, in a blue tennis tank and black visor, holds a racket in her right hand, pumps her left fist and smiles broadly as fans look on from behind.America likes to fancy itself the land of second chances. Show some humility. Work hard. A new you, or perhaps a better version of the old you, is just around the corner.

So perhaps it’s fitting that comebacks have featured so prominently in the first days of the U.S. Open. Some have gone well — Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, Stan Wawrinka, Jennifer Brady. Others — Venus Williams, who suffered an opening night drubbing — not so much.

What binds them together though, is the seemingly irresistible pull of a sport and…