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Australian tennis No.1 'at breaking point', takes pause

Daria Kasatkina is to take a break from tennis revealing she is mentally and emotionally spent. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia's women's tennis No.1 has put her career on hold for the rest of the year stating "mentally and emotionally I am at breaking point".

Daria Kasatkina, who switched nationality from Russia to Australia earlier this year, immediately becoming national No.1, blamed the "emotional and mental stress" related to that change, the strain of not seeing her family and the relentless schedule of the tennis circuit.

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