Caroline Wozniacki finally bagging some titles towards the end of the season – Tennis News
It has been a real rough ride for the former world number one, Caroline Wozniacki, throughout the running season but it seems like luck has finally started to go her way now. The elegant Dane professional lost her world number
one spot, fell out of the elite Top-10 rankings and couldn’t win a single WTA championship title until September.
Wozniacki has finally seen in her true colours during her recent few campaigns and she has eventually broken into the winners’ circle. The 22-year-old took off the 2012 WTA season as the world number one player but a drastic slump
in her form quickly pushed her out of the Top-10 list of women tennis players. She has been consistently suffering upset results from inferior-ranked contestants but still managed to reach the quarter-final and semi-final stages of most of the tournaments.
She was undefeated at Copenhagen for the last two years but she lost in the final of the event at her home this season.
Her Grand Slam title drought sustained this year as well and she couldn’t put up an impressive performance in all the Major tournaments. Her depressing bad patch finally ended last month in Seoul when she outplayed Kaia Kanepi
of Estonia in the final to bag her maiden WTA title of the current season. However, her triumph didn’t satisfied her critics, as the Seoul playing field wasn’t seen as a competitive one and Wozniacki didn’t face any real challenge from any of her opponents.
Nonetheless, her championship victory boosted up her confidence to a new level and she continued her winning impetus last week in Moscow.
Wozniacki was seeded at number three in the Kremlin Cup and she cruised to the title match against the world number nine, Samantha Stosur. The Dane number one had to dig deep before hunting down the Australian tennis ace in three
sets, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, to lift her second WTA title of the year.
“I'm just happy I'm healthy, and I feel I've been hitting the ball well lately,” Wozniacki expressed in the post-match presentation ceremony. “So I'm just hoping to play well here this week. Everyone's quite tired at the end of
the season - I'm hoping to play well here, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to some holidays.”
Commenting about the final, the Dane said, “I think both of us played very good tennis out there. Sam has been playing well and I knew it wasn't going to be easy, and it could have gone either way at the end, but I think at the
right times I played the right shots.”
Wozniacki’s recent performances have been quite satisfying but she has to face more gruelling challenges next season to reclaim her lost glory.
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