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Jenson Brooksby returns to pro tennis at the Australian Open after 2 eventful years away

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Two eventful years after his most recent official tennis match — a stretch that included a pair of wrist operations, a bum shoulder, a coaching change and a suspension related to missed drug tests — Jenson Brooksby returned to action Tuesday at the Australian Open. It was not exactly a chance for Brooksby to ease his way into things. The 24-year-old Californian, who spoke to The Associated Press last month about being diagnosed as autistic as a child, was in a best-of-five-set contest at a Grand Slam tournament and drawn to face the No. 4 seed, U.S. Open runner-up Taylor Fritz.

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