Caroline wasaki will very likely do the same thing that she did a year ago as the former World know one reveals that the US Open is probably her last tournament of the season after stunningly coming out of retirement last summer wasaki appeared at the WTA 1,000 tournaments in Montreal and Cincinatti before also returning to the US Open via a wild card and waki's return to Flushing Meadows was quite something as the 34-year-old danne won her opening three matches before falling short to eventual Champion Coco golf in the round of 16 following a success ful run in New York 2018 Australian Open Champion wasaki decided to prematurely put an end to her 2023 season and instead focus on preparing for 2024 on Tuesday wasaki made a convincing start to her campaign at this year's US Open by destroying Noah hibino 6 to 06 to1 in her Opening match afterward a reporter brought up the move the former World know one pulled after last year's US Open and asked if she was planning on doing the same again I honestly don't know what my plans are after the open right now my initial thought is I'm probably not going to play after but I don't know I don't have a final say again wherever I travel I'm going to go with the kids and I also have to see what's best for the family and myself wasaki shared in her postmatch presser wasaki who turned 34 in July made her debut at Flushing Meadows nearly two decades ago in 2007 since then the 34-year-old DNE has made 15 appearances at the US Open including this year very early in her career wasaki started making deep runs in New York she finished as runner-up to Kim kers in the 2009 US Open final before picking up back-to-back semi-finals exits at Flushing Meadows in 20110 and 2011 a couple of years later wasaki also lost her second US Open final in 2014 before exiting the tournament again in the semi-final in 2016 now ahead of her US Open second round match against ranata zarazua wasaki hopes she can do something magical at Flushing Meadows this year well I always love playing at the US Open I think there are some tournaments throughout the year I enjoy a lot more than others this is one of the tournaments where I love coming back I love playing in front of a big crowd I love New York in general and I think that shows in my past results here wasaki noted so my enjoyment is great I always feel like I bring some of my best tennis here in New York so hopefully I can continue to do that from match to match it's obviously different but I feel good I'm very happy to be here wasaki has the support of her family the press conference wasaki highlighted that the physical part has been the most challenging of her comeback because she was out of action for 3 and A2 years before abruptly ending her retirement while away from tennis wasaki welcomed two kids with her husband and now that they travel with her the Dane shares that they haven't had any problems because her husband and kids enjoy their time on the road 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 become really open kids from that and they adjust so well to a new bed a new hotel room we came here this year Olivia walks into her room she 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 James 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 meanwhile wasaki and World know 92 zarazua will be meeting for the first time in their careers when they Clash on Thursday after a dominant performance against tabino there is no reason not to think that wasaki isn't the favorite to saw off zarazua and progress into round three