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Jennifer Brady
Jennifer Brady built her game at UCLA, part of a Division I title team as a freshman, before a heavy serve and flat backhand carried her onto tour. She reached the 2020 US Open semi-finals against Naomi Osaka, then went one better at the 2021 Australian Open, a run made after fourteen days confined to a Melbourne hotel room after a positive case on her charter flight. Osaka beat her again in the final. Her left heel then popped in Cincinnati, a torn plantar fascia that also uncovered a knee injury.
The rebuild took nearly two years, a 2023 comeback as far as the US Open third round, then a second knee surgery in 2024 and a layoff past 800 days. She returned in January 2026, then took wild cards into Indian Wells and Miami, first-round exits she treats as data points, not verdicts. At 31, a career-high No. 13 behind her, Brady wants matches and health now, not the player she once was.