Canada’s Rebecca Marino to return to competition after five-year absence
MONTREAL — Canadian tennis player Rebecca Marino will return to competition next week for the first time in nearly five years.
Marino, a former world No. 38 from Vancouver, stepped away from the sport in early 2013 after revealing her battle with depression. Now 26, she is set to play in upcoming ITF tournaments in Saguenay, Que., and Toronto, Tennis Canada said Tuesday.
“I’m excited to come back and play in Canada, especially in tournaments that I participated in a number of times in my career,” Marino said in a release. “I made the decision to return to professional tennis a couple of months ago and started training again during the first week of September. It’s been a pretty short training schedule, but I’m doing it because I enjoy it.
“I don’t have any ranking goals or result goals right now, I just want to go in and enjoy the process and come at it from a different place than I was before. I want to be happy to be on court and compete, that’s all that matters to me.”