After giving birth to Olympia, Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Kim Clijsters both achieved Grand Slam victories, and Serena Williams came agonizingly close to doing the same after losing in four finals.
The WTA revised the rules prior to the 2019 season, making it simpler to return to the tour following a maternity hiatus.
After their child is born, new mothers can now enter 12 tournaments using their prior ranking during a three-year period.
However, the 2016 mother of a baby named Leo, Victoria Azarenka, the former world number one, thinks the WTA should implement maternity pay as its next move.
Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka discuss how maternity pay on WTA tours would be “life-changing.”
It has been 51 years since mother Margaret Court achieved three Grand Slams in one year.
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