former world number one Carolyn Waki has been balancing family life and her return to tennis in recent years but it appears the two go perfectly hand inand the 34-year-old is currently in Queens for the US Open as she continues to refine her feet after starting a family the 2018 Australian Open Champion announced her return to professional tennis last summer after halting her career as she began her family with her former NBA player husband David Lee was nyaki gave birth to her daughter Oliva on June 11th 2021 and Son James on October 24th 2022 the Dan started her US Open journey in cruise control with Victory against Japan's n oh hibino in straight sets and dropped just one game on Tuesday wasaki was asked after her Victory by reporter how her young family have adjusted to spending time away from home as her tennis career takes her around the globe she replied they absolutely love it I mean I bring them everywhere I think it's such a great life experience for them even though they're so young they don't know any better this is your life traveling everywhere meeting new people seeing new places I think they've become really open kids from that and they adjust so well to a new bed a new hotel room speaking about her oldest child Olivia's enjoyment at being on the road she continued we came here this year Olivia walks into her room she go goes wow this is a nice house we have here I go yeah don't get too used to this she goes well this is mine now she like runs in and she's so thrilled it's just fun to see the world through her and Jam's eyes it's nice to see how easy they adjust to everything it's been a real joy to bring them and have them obviously you know being a mom is also full-time job so you know juggling both is not always easy but it's something that I'm so proud of and so happy to be able to do during the pre-tournament press conference for the Australian Open earlier this year wasaki spoke about her enjoyment of traveling with her children I travel with my kids everywhere the kind of an extension of me and always around I really enjoy that wasaki said they're very adaptable they're at an age where you can move them around and especially the older one Olivia she loves to travel and explore she asks me when we're going on the plane next where we're going next wasaki will face Mexico's rard zaru in the second round on Thursday zarzu registered his Ma and Main draw match at the US Open after beating 28 seed Carolyn Garcia 61 64 the winner will face either Elena Rino or Jessica ponchet in the third round