Caroline Wozniacki (born July 11, 1990, Odense) is a Danish tennis player. As of November 22, 2006, she is 232nd in the WTA rankings.
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| Country (sports) |  Denmark |
|---|---|
| Residence | Farum[1] |
| Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1] |
| Turned pro | 2005 |
| Plays | Right; Two-handed backhand |
| Prize money | $25,458 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 17-12 (114-28 juniors)[2] |
| Career titles | 0 (1 ITF) |
| Highest ranking | No. 230 (November 27, 2006) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | n/a (2006 juniors runner-up)[2] |
| French Open | n/a (2005, 06 juniors R16)[2] |
| Wimbledon | n/a (2006 juniors champion)[2] |
| US Open | n/a (2004, 05, 06 juniors R64)[2] |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 5-7 (68-32 juniors)[2] |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 218 (November 27, 2006) |
| Last updated on: December 3, 2006. | |
Being born to Polish parents, she is trilingual, fluent in Polish as well as Danish and English.
She has won several junior tournaments (including 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 July 19, 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 girl's singles), but lost the final to eight-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, with the score 6-1, 2-6, 3-6. She was seeded second with Anna Tatishvili in the doubles-tournament, but the pair was knocked out in the semi-final by the French-Italian pair Alize Cornet and Corinna Dentoni, who was seeded eighth.
In February, 2006, 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.
Before Wimbledon, Wozniacki won the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament beating Ashley Harkleroad in the semi-finals.
Later that year she was given a wildcard to the 2006 Wimbledon Championships senior qualifying tournament, where she was beaten in the first qualifying round by Miho Saeki in three sets: 6-3, 2-6, 3-6. However, Wozniacki went on to win the girls' singles tournament, beating Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the final.
In August 2006 she reached another WTA Tour quaterfinal, this time at the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm. She defeated top 100 players Iveta Benesova and Eleni Daniilidou before falling to eventual champion Jie Zheng (seeded 3rd).
In her last junior tournament, the Osaka Mayor's Cup, she won the girls' singles and doubles.
Her first senior title came shortly after on October 29, 2006, when she won the $25,000 ITF-tournament in Istanbul by beating Tatiana Molek 6-2, 6-1 in the final.
Wozniacki was set to face Venus Williams on November 27, 2006 in an exhibition match in Copenhagen,[3] but five days prior to the event, Williams canceled because of an injury.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "About Caroline" at CarolineWozniacki.dk
- ^ a b c d e f Final junior records. Junior player biography for Caroline Wozniacki
- ^ Template:Da icon "Tennisgalla 2006" at CarolineWozniacki.dk
- ^ Ritzau (2006-11-22). "Wozniackis kamp mod Venus aflyst" (in Danish). dr.dk. Retrieved 2006-11-22.
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External links
- Caroline Wozniacki.dk - Official Site
- Danish Delight - Caroline Wozniacki thread at WTAworld.com
- Caroline Wozniacki at Flickr.com
- Caroline Wozniacki at the Women's Tennis Association
- Profiles for Caroline Wozniacki at ITF's home page:
- Caroline Wozniacki at juniortennis.com
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