Caroline Wozniacki survives three-sets quarter-final against Yanina Wickmayer
The Danish world number one, Caroline Wozniacki, fought through an intense match at the hands of the sixth seed Yanina Wickmayer from Belgium. The Danish pro paced her victory at the 2011 Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina. Wozniacki managed
to fight-up from a set down to win the match 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. The match itself lasted for over two hours and twenty minutes.
Wozniacki is seeded first at this prestigious premier tournament, and was expected to win the match in easy straights. However, Wickmayer of Belarus surprised her opponent and her fans by thwarting Wozniacki’s initial efforts and winning the first
set of the match in under forty-five minutes to put the Dane at a severe disadvantage.
Wozniacki managed to regain some lost ground as the match went on. She directed the score with seven aces in comparison with four by Wickmayer. She also stayed away from double faults, while Wickmayer grew distracted and made for such errors to help
Wozniacki’s cause. In addition to this, the Dane also managed to fight off six of ten break points and took revenge for the other four by breaking Wickmayer five times during the match. Although the World Number 1 played weakly in the beginning of the match,
she had warmed up by the latter half and won the match with 52 per cent of the total points. The final score line was 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Wickmayer is ranked much lower, than Wozniacki, at world number twenty-three, and was expected to lose the match. Their most recent meeting was at the US Open in 2009, where Wozniacki prevailed over Wickmayer in straight sets 6-3, 6-3 in the semi-finals
of the tournament. They had not competed in a match since then, until the third round of this event. The head-to-head record between Wozniacki and Wickmayer is now 2-0.
Caroline Wozniacki will face the American tennis player Christina McHale or Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in the semi-finals of this event, depending on the outcome of their quarter-final, which is scheduled to take place later today.
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