Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak set for tennis return

Aleksandra-Wozniak

Aleksandra Wozniak, currently ranked 696th on the WTA Tour, has not played since undergoing surgery on her right shoulder last September. (Martin Rickett/CP)

TORONTO — Canadian tennis player Aleksandra Wozniak is returning to the court after an 11-month injury layoff.

Tennis Canada announced Wednesday that the former world No. 21 from Blainville, Que., will play a Challenger Series event in Winnipeg 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 last 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. She capped her season by winning the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award, given out by The Canadian Press to the female athlete of the year.

She won her lone career title in 2008 at Stanford, where she defeated Marion Bartoli in the final.

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