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Caroline Wozniacki - Practicing Between Rounds US Open

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Caroline Wozniacki - Practicing Between Rounds US Open

Caroline Wozniacki - Practicing Between Rounds US Open
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Danish tennis player


U.S Open Highlights:
Wozniacki was the top seed at the US Open, due to the withdrawal of World No. 1 Serena Williams. Had Wozniacki won the US Open, she would have replaced Williams as the World No. 1 player. She defeated Chelsey Gullickson 6–1, 6–1 in the first round and had an even easier second round, 6–0, 6–0 over Chang Kai-chen in 47 minutes. The third round saw her defeating another Taiwanese player, Chan Yung-jan, 6–1, 6–0. In the fourth round, she defeated the 2006 US Open champion Maria Sharapova 6–3, 6–4. She defeated unseeded Dominika Cibulková 6–2, 7–5 in the quarterfinals but lost 4–6, 3–6 to Vera Zvonareva in the semifinals.

Biography

Caroline Wozniacki, (born 11 July 1990) is a Danish tennis player, born in Odense. As of 16 August 2010, Wozniacki is ranked World No. 2. She has won eight WTA Tour events and was the runner up at the 2009 US Open.

Wozniacki has won several junior tournaments (including the 2006 Wimbledon girls' singles tournament and the 2005 Orange Bowl tennis championship), and made her debut on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open on 19 July 2005, losing to the top-seeded and later champion Patty Schnyder in the first round.

Wozniacki started the 2010 season playing at an exhibition tournament in Hong Kong where she lost two singles matches for Team Europe but won two mixed doubles with Stefan Edberg. In her first WTA tournament of the year, Caroline suffered an opening round loss to Li Na of China in Sydney. She was seeded 4th at the Australian Open, her first top-8 seed in a Grand Slam. She again fell to Na, this time in the fourth round, in straight sets. Despite her 4th round exit, Wozniacki achieved her career high ranking of No.3.

As the 2nd seed at Indian Wells, Wozniacki reached the final, despite dropping a set to three players en route. She was defeated by Jelena Janković 6–2, 6–4. With the result, she again achieved a new career high rank of World No. 2.[8] At the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Wozniacki lost in the quarterfinals to the newly-returned Justine Henin 6–7(5), 6–3, 6–4.

Her next tournament was at Ponte Vedra Beach, where she cruised to the semifinals. In the semifinals, she scored a come from behind win against Elena Vesnina to advance her second final of the year. There, Wozniacki defeated Olga Govortsova 6–2, 7–5. Wozniacki then competed at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston. Wozniacki advanced to the semi-finals, where she met Vera Zvonareva of Russia. She was forced to retire down 4–2 when she rolled her ankle chasing down a short ball. The injury was cited as serious.

Despite her ongoing ankle injury, she continued to compete in tournaments through the clay court season, suffering early losses in Stuttgart,Rome, Madrid, and Warsaw. Despite her poor clay court season, Wozniacki was seeded 3rd at the French Open. She posted her best result at Roland Garros by advancing to the fourth round, without having dropped a set. There, it took almost three hours for Wozniacki to defeat Flavia Pennetta of Italy 7–6(5), (4)6–7, 6–2. In the quarter finals she lost to Francesca Schiavone, the eventual champion, 6–3, 6–2. Wozniacki partnered Daniela Hantuchová in doubles, but withdrew before their second round match with the Williams sisters due to a right shoulder injury to Hantuchová.

As the defending champion, Wozniacki lost early at the AEGON International, her first grass court tournament of the year. Wozniacki was seeded 3rd at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. She defeated Tathiana Garbin, Chang Kai-chen and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova en route to the fourth round, where she was crushed by Petra Kvitova 6–2, 6–0.

Wozniacki was the #1 seed at the 2010 e-Boks Danish Open. It was the first Danish WTA tournament and was created largely because of Wozniacki's popularity in Denmark. She defeated Petra Martic in straight sets, Iveta Benešová, Julia Görges, and Anna Chakvetadze all in three sets to reach the final where she defeated Klara Zakopalova to win her second title of the year.