Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki (born 11 July 1990, Odense) is a Danish tennis player. She achieved her current and career-high singles ranking of World No. 4 on 26 October 2009. She is the only Danish woman currently in the Top 300 on the WTA Tour. She has won 6 WTA Tour events and was the runner up at the 2009 US Open.
Wozniacki is the daughter of Polish parents, father Piotr and mother Anna. Piotr Wozniacki acts as her coach. She is from a very sports-oriented family. Her mother played on the Poland women’s national volleyball team. Her father played football professionally in Poland (Miedź Legnica and Zagłębie Lubin), Germany, and they moved to Denmark when his contract was sold to a Danish club. Her older brother Patrik is a professional football player for BK Frem in Denmark.
Her closest friends on the tour are Agnieszka Radwanska and Urszula Radwanska. She is also good friends with Sabine Lisicki and Sorana Cirstea.
Asked about her hobbies, she told Teen Vogue, “I like handball”, “soccer, swimming, playing the piano, and all kinds of different things.”
She speaks fluent Danish, Polish, and English, and understands Russian.
Many tennis fans and commentators consider Wozniacki a pusher although she can be aggressive when the time comes. She is known for her agility on the court and her tenacity at chasing down balls. Wozniacki is considered a passive player, but she is also crafty when it comes to setting up aggressive winners (See Doha 2009). Caroline is often regarded highly as having some of the best mental strength in the WTA (tennis) top ten. She is very resistant to choking and has the ability to pull out difficult situations.
She 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.
In 2006, she was the first seed at the Australian Open (junior girls singles), but lost the final to eight-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 1–6, 6–2, 6–3. She was seeded second with Anna Tatishvili in the doubles tournament, but the pair was knocked out in the semifinals by the French-Italian pair of Alizé Cornet and Corinna Dentoni, who were seeded eighth.
In February in Memphis, she reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal, beating Kristina Brandi and Ashley Harkleroad in the first two rounds before losing to third-seeded Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden.
