Former world number one Lindsay Davenport says her decision to return to the game after a year in retirement is largely motivated by the chance of competing at next year's Olympics in Beijing.
American Davenport, who gave birth to a son, Jagger, in June before mounting a triumphant WTA Tour comeback, was a gold medallist in the women's singles at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
"To go back to the Olympics as a mother and a wife and have my whole family there would be so amazingly different than the 12 years before in Atlanta," Davenport, 31, said on Thursday.
"I was lucky enough to be in Atlanta and on the Sydney team [in 2000] but I turned down the chance to go to Athens in 2004 which was a decision that sometimes I regret."
Photgraphs: Getty Images | Text: Reuters
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