Li Na switches her ninth rank with the eighth ranked Caroline Wozniacki – Tennis News
Dane number one, Caroline Wozniacki, stumbles down to the number nine spot after Li Na’s successful quarter-final conquest against the Slovak tennis ace, Dominika Cibulkova, on Friday. It has been a dismal season for the Dane who
started as the number one player in the world. The downturn started in the year’s first Grand Slam tournament and continues at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome.
Her fans are afraid of that if she is not able to extract her form in the coming few days, she might drop out of Top-20 players at the end of the clay court season. Chinese number one, Li Na, has also seen a major dip in her form
since the star of the season. She also slipped to the number ninth spot from world number five but now sees herself above the Dane after an impressive tour of Rome.
Wozniacki needs to focus on her game and quit other activities to revive her form; otherwise, she won’t be able to have a third shot at the number one spot in the world. She has already enjoyed the absence of big guns during her
reign as world number one. Now that they have returned to the tennis circuit and playing tremendously well; it means that she will have to raise her game to the whole new standard to meet the likes of Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova.
The Chinese number one received a walkover after the American number one, Serena Williams, withdrew from the tournament after incurring a back injury. So, that means the number one Chinese starlet will face-off either the Russian
defending champion, Maria Sharapova, or the German number one, Angelique Kerber, in the final; depending on whoever wins the semi-final clash on Saturday.
Everyone is waiting for the year’s second Grand Slam tournament, the Roland Garros French Open, and Li will enter the clay courts of Paris as the defending champion. If she manages to defend her title at the age of 30 especially
with such a monumental competition ahead of her; it will be the most glorious moments in the history of tennis fanatics of Asia.
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