Biography. Caroline Wozniacki: biography and sports career of a tennis player Personal life of Caroline Wozniacki
Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki has shown a phenomenal level of play this year as she strives to regain her lost WTA No. 1 spot. Despite the relatively small number of trophies, the 27-year-old tennis player has reassured her fans with good prospects for next season.
Early career years
Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki was born in sports family- my mother was engaged in volleyball for a long time, speaking even as part of the Polish national team, and my father played football at a professional level. It was the father who advocated sending a 7-year-old daughter to the Fairly fast, light and stubborn junior, who was able to establish herself, and already 5 years later she fought on equal terms for victory in tournaments, including with older rivals.
Thanks to her confident game in 2004, Caroline Wozniacki was able to qualify for the junior Grand Slam tournament, and in the same autumn she reached the final of the tournament in Osaka, becoming the winner of the competition in a stubborn struggle. Inspired by success, in just two years, the young Dane made it to the top international ranking among girls.
Pinnacle of Women's Tennis
In 2007, Caroline Wozniacki, thanks to an incredible unbeaten streak of 14 matches in a row, broke into the top 200 best athletes in the world, loudly declaring herself, and a year later becoming a tennis player with the prefix "from the top 20". Thanks to excellent statistics in 2008 (58 wins with 20 losses), Caroline was recognized as the WTA Rookie of the Year.
The next two years became a little less successful for the Dane, but it is difficult to rank them among the unsuccessful ones - having won several important trophies, on March 2, 2010, Caroline Wozniacki became the second racket of the world, and 8 months later she topped the main tennis ranking among women.
2011 was marked by a series of successful results for the tennis player - after the semi-finals at the Australian Open, three finals followed, and in almost all major competitions Carolina managed to reach at least the semi-finals. Thanks to her game, Wozniacki was able to retain the first line of the rating.
The problems of the Danish tennis player began in 2012. Due to the coaching “leapfrog”, Wozniacki’s results deteriorated sharply, and, taking two trophies, and a year later, only one, Caroline left the top tennis rating. Despite the improvement of the game, the Dane could not show a decent result, continuing to lose ground in singles, - after a slight rise in 2014 to 8th place, soon Carolyn was on the verge of relegation from the top 20.
In 2017, the quality of tennis demonstrated by Caroline Wozniacki is in front of final tournament in Singapore, Wozniacki had 58 wins and 20 losses - allowing the athlete to jump up again. By October, the Dane was ranked 6th in the rankings, and now, taking into account the upcoming tournament, one of the main stars has a good chance of breaking into the top 5 of world tennis.
"Hall of Fame"
The Danes have more than three dozen titles in professional tennis competitions, while Caroline Wozniacki managed to achieve success not only in singles, but also in doubles. In total, in duets, the tennis player has two victories in the WTA finals - the first took place in 2006, when the hosts of the court, Chinese Han Xinyun and Xu Yifan, were beaten together with Anabel Garrigues, and the final one to date - three years later. Together with Karolin, she beat a pair of Fedak-Krajcek.
The main “direction” of Wozniacki is singles – she has 6 victories in ITF tournaments and 26 more in the WTA. The first victory in the elite series of competitions was won in 2008 in Stockholm - Caroline left no chance for Russian Vera Dushevina. In the future, the Danish athlete took at least one title every year, while the vast majority was won on hard - Wozniacki's favorite surface.
At the moment, there are no cups from the main tennis competition in the piggy bank of Caroline Wozniacki - the Dane reached the final twice, but lost both times - in 2009 in the USA the young athlete could not cope with and 5 years later Serena Williams was on her way to the title at the US Open.
In the course of her career, Caroline Wozniacki was marked by a unique "achievement" - for six years at the Australian Open, the Dane has consistently shown a deterioration in her results. From the semi-final stage in 2011, the tennis player went down step by step to elimination in the first round in 2016.
Personal life
Not much is known about Caroline Wozniacki's personal life - the tennis player herself avoided this topic in her interviews. In 2011, the Dane was often observed at golf tournaments with the participation of Rory McIlroy, and later their close relationship was confirmed by the couple themselves. More than two years later, the athletes announced their engagement, but shortly before the wedding, the lovers broke up. The British golfer cited his own unpreparedness for marriage as the reason for the quarrel. Currently, Caroline Wozniacki is single and fully focused on her professional tennis career.
Carolina was born in Odense (Odense), in a family of Poles Peter and Anna. Piotr Wozniacki, in fact, was one of his daughter's coaches. In general, the girl's family has always paid a lot of attention to sports - for example, Anna Wozniacki played for the Polish women's volleyball team for some time; Peter played football professionally in the teams of Poland, Germany and Denmark. Karolina's older brother, Patrick, is also a professional sportsman, playing football for the Danish club Brønshøj.
Rise to the heights of glory Wozniacki began
still at the junior level. Even then, she regularly won various championships - in particular, the Orange Bowl series championship in 2005. For the first time, Carolina entered the court on July 19, 2005, as part of the open women's championship in Cincinnati (Cincinnati).
In 2006, Wozniacki performed quite successfully at the Australian Open. singles championship among girls; in the final, however, she lost to Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Karolina also tried to perform in pairs competitions - together with Anna Tatishvili (Anna Tatishvili) - but there she managed to add
fight only until the semi-finals. In February 2006, in Memphis (Memphis), Carolina reached the quarterfinals for the first time in the WTA Tour competition. In August, she repeated this result - this time in Stockholm (Stockholm).
On October 29, 2007, Wozniacki won her first "adult title" by winning the International Tennis Federation Championship in Istanbul (Istanbul). On November 27th, Carolina was to fight Venus Williams herself; unfortunately, 5 days before the match, the eminent tennis player was injured. Play them all
it happened, but already on February 20, 2007; then Williams defeated Wozniacki, interrupting her winning streak of 9 matches in a row.
In 2007, Wozniacki entered the Pacific Life Open; she flew out of it in the second round, after meeting with Martina Hingis (Martina Hingis). On April 27, a kind of rematch took place in Copenhagen - however, Carolina lost it too.
In October, the athlete reached the first semi-final in her career - this happened in Tokyo (Tokyo); again, her path to victory was interrupted by a meeting with Venus Williams.
2008 for Caro
Lina turned out to be more successful - in the summer in Stockholm she defeated Vera Dushevina and thus won the Nordic Light Open championship. Along with the rest of the results of 2008, this led to the fact that Wozniacki was called the best newcomer of the year.
In 2009, the tennis player started rather weakly; in the future, however, she recovered and even made it to the final of the US Open. 2010 was rather uneven for Carolina: it all started with a defeat in the championship in Sydney and the Australian Open Championship - both times she was defeated by the Chinese Li Na (Li Na). Then, at the game with Ver
oh Zvonareva Carolina injured her ankle; because of this, she had to give up training for a long time. However, now Wozniacki has already returned to action and continues his triumphant march on the courts of the world.
After a successful performance at the US Open in 2009 - then Carolina reached the final, losing only to Kim Clijsters (Kim Clijsters) - Wozniacki became the official representative of the line sportswear Stella McCartney.
Karolina is fluent in Polish, Danish and English; She also understands Russian.
Tennis player Date of birth July 11 (Cancer) 1990 (29) Place of birth Odense Instagram @carowozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki is a former world number one, a successful Danish tennis player who has proven her talent in dozens of competitions at various levels. Millions of subscribers follow the athlete's life, and new victories and cups raise her rating among her colleagues.
Biography of Caroline Wozniacki
Future champion tennis court was born in Denmark, in the small and cozy town of Odense on July 11, 1990. The girl's family was athletic: her father played football professionally, and her mother moved up the career ladder of a volleyball player. Caroline Wozniacki began to seriously get involved in tennis at the age of 7: since then grueling workout and exciting competitions have become an integral part of the life of a star.
At the age of 15, the girl first participated in the Cincinnati competitions and conquered the Orange Bowl championship. In both cases, Carolina failed to take first place, but the competent game was remembered by both the judges and the audience. In 2006, the girl made it to the finals of the Australian Open junior competition, losing the victory to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. In February of the same year, the tennis player reached the WTA quarterfinals, and then won the Wimbledon junior championship. In the fall of 2006, Karolyn won another victory in Istanbul and received the ITF senior title.
In 2007, the athlete added to the list of awards, deserving victory in Las Vegas and Ortisei, as well as reaching the semi-finals in Tokyo, at the WTA Championship. In 2008, the star's career soared even higher - towards world fame. Caroline played in Australia, Stockholm, New Haven and achieved good success in every corner of the world. Not without a tennis player at the Olympics in Beijing, where she made it to the third round, but lost to Elena Dementieva, the Russian winner. At the end of 2008, she managed to get her third WTA title and get into the 12th place in the ranking of athletes.
2009 began with defeats, but Caroline still made it to the finals in Memphis, won awards in Ponte Vedra Beach, Eastbourne, Madrid. At the US Championship, the tennis player, unfortunately, could not win, losing the title to Kim Clister. Thanks to her fruitful work, Wozniacki rose to fourth place in the WTA rankings, and in 2010 she became the undisputed leader, firmly entrenched in the first line. Since 2013, the career of a sports star begins to slowly lose momentum, she makes more and more mistakes.
Despite Danish citizenship, the celebrity is Polish and speaks Polish, Danish and English, understands Russian perfectly. In 2009, an attractive blonde became the "face" of the Adidas company and promoted the famous brand on advertising tabloids.
Personal life of Caroline Wozniacki
Carolyn's first serious passion is the successful Irish golfer Rory McIlroy. The couple met back in 2011 at one of the boxing matches. At the time, Rory was in a relationship, but soon after meeting an attractive tennis player, the couple broke up. The young man immediately won the heart of the famous athlete and made an offer at the end of 2013. The media have been waiting for a magnificent wedding for a long time, but in 2014 the engagement was terminated.
Caroline is currently dating basketball player David Lee.
Known in sports circles Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki was born in June 1990 in Odense (Denmark). She has Polish roots, and her parents were in the past professional athletes(father played football, and mother was a volleyball player). Caroline has been playing tennis since the age of seven. At first, Wozniacki trained under the guidance of her father.
Since 2005, Caroline Wozniacki has been playing singles tennis tournaments. Her rating grew gradually along with the skill of a tennis player. If in 2006 she was 237th, then in 2009 she already took 4th place. In 2010-2011 she first moved to the second, and then firmly held the first position. Caroline Wozniacki has been in the top 100 tennis players since 2007.
The first title was won by Caroline Wozniacki in Stockholm and the second title in New Haven. Beijing summer olympiad was not very successful for the Danish tennis player, as she lost to Dementieva in the third round.
In 2013, Caroline Wozniacki from time to time gives way to other tennis players, losing the stability in the results that had previously taken place. She somehow manages to balance on the border between the first and second dozens of the rating. For the most part, this is due to the failures of her rivals on the court.
During her tennis career, Caroline Wozniacki has earned almost $12 million, which is a pretty good figure in this sport, given her young age. Trained by athlete Riccardo Sanchez and her own father. Karolyn's older brother holds the position of tennis manager in the team in which her sister trains.
In the game, tennis player Caroline Wozniacki prefers a two-handed left hand and has a good variable feed, and hard is her favorite surface. As for the personal life of Caroline Wozniacki, everything is fine here too. Recently, many media attributed to Wozniacki an affair with golfer Rory McIlroy, but as it became known, Caroline Wozniacki and Rory McIlroy have been dating for several years and everything is fine with them.
Winner of 12 WTA tournaments in singles and 2 in doubles.
2009 US Open finalist.
Junior Wimbledon winner in 2006. In the same year, she was a finalist in the junior Australian Open.
Former junior world number one.
general information
Karolin is the daughter of Polish parents. Father Piotr Wozniacki, who is also her coach, used to be a professional football player, mother Anna played for the Polish national volleyball team [source?]. Caroline's family moved to Denmark before she was born, when Peter signed a contract with the local football club B 1909. Older brother Patrick is also a football player and plays in the Danish Frem team.
Karolyn is fluent in Polish, Danish, English and understands Russian.
Caroline names Steffi Graf and Martina Hingis as tennis idols.
Best of the day
In 2009, Wozniacki replaced Russian Maria Kirilenko as the face of Stella McCartney's Adidas sportswear line.
Caroline - cheerleader football club Liverpool and striker Fernando Torres.
Playing style
Caroline's playing style evokes rather conflicting emotions among tennis fans. Most consider her game too boring and closed. She prefers defensive tennis at the back of the line, with a lot of half-candles and cut shots. There were matches when Wozniacki won by making 5-6 winners (actively won points) - the result was achieved due to the minimum number of unforced errors.
However, one cannot fail to note significant progress in her game in recent years. Caroline noticeably added to the pitch and the game of the rally. Now she has an impeccable backhand (backhand down the line is her signature) and a decent forehand. Wozniacki began to act tactically more flexibly - not only sits out the entire match on the defensive, but successfully counterattacks and even goes on the offensive from the first ball herself.
Caroline's favorite surfaces are hard and clay.
Sports career
2005-2006
Carolyn made her professional tour debut in 2005 in Cincinnati, losing in starting match future winner Patti Schneider. Wozniacki held her second WTA tournament in Stockholm, losing in the first round to Martina Sucha.
In 2006, Caroline made it to the final of the junior Australian Open, where she was stopped by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. In February, she reached the first quarterfinal of her career at the WTA tournament in Memphis.
At the senior Wimbledon, she received a "wild card" to qualify, but failed to pass the first round barrier. But at the junior competitions, Wozniacki became the winner, defeating the Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova in the final.
In August, Wozniacki again reached the quarterfinals in Stockholm, defeating such famous players like Iveta Beneshova and Eleni Danilidu. At the youth open championship USA Carolyn was seeded second, but during the first round match against Alexandra Panova she was disqualified for "verbally insulting the referee". Wozniacki said that she simply "complained about the linesman", who, in her opinion, made too many mistakes, but later admitted on her blog that she shouted: "take off your sunglasses."
At the end of October 2006, she won her first senior ITF title in Istanbul, defeating Tatjana Malek in the final. On November 30 of the same year, Caroline Wozniacki was named "Ambassador of Danish Junior Tennis" by Danish Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen.
2007
At the beginning of 2007, Caroline won 2 titles at the "75-thousanders" in the Italian Ortisei and the American Las Vegas, beating Alberta Brianti and Akiko Morigami in the decisive matches, respectively.
Thanks to such impressive success, she received a "wild card" for her debut in the life of the 1st category tournament in Indian Wells, but lost in the opening match to Martina Hingis.
At the end of the year, she again managed to beat her achievement in the WTA tournaments - she reached the semi-finals in Tokyo.
2008
In 2008, Caroline's ascent to the elite of world tennis began. Already at the Australian Championship, she made it to the fourth round, where she lost to Ana Ivanovich. at Roland Garros and Wimbledon tournament Wozniacki made it to the third round. And in the summer she won her first WTA title in Stockholm, defeating Russian Vera Dushevina in the final. The second title was submitted to her in the American New Haven - in decisive match Anna Chakvetadze was defeated.
At the Beijing Olympics, Carolyn reached the third round, where she lost to the future winner Elena Dementieva, and at the US Open she reached the 1/8 finals, losing to Elena Yankovic there. At the end of the year, Wozniacki took her third WTA title in a tournament in Japan and finished the season 12th in the rankings, with a win-loss ratio of 58-20.
The WTA named her the Rookie of the Year winner.
2009
Season 2009 Wozniacki did not start in the best way, losing at all tournaments in the third round, but already at the end of February in Memphis she made it to the final, where she lost to Victoria Azarenka. This was followed by the quarterfinals at the super tournaments in Miami and Indian Wells. Caroline played virtually non-stop every week, winning titles in Eastbourne and Ponte Vedra Beach, reaching the finals in Charleston, Madrid and Bastade. At Wimbledon, she was able to reach the 1/8 finals.
A series of tournaments on American hard Carolyn did not start in the best way, but after winning in New Haven, she made a sensation on the courts of New York, making it to the final of the US Open, where she was stopped by the triumphant return of Belgian Kim Clisters.
Wozniacki got the right to play at the final championship in Doha - there, leaving the group, she lost to Serena Williams.
2010
Wozniacki started the 2010 season with a first-round loss in Sydney to Na Lee, who she lost to in the round of 16 of the Australian Open. Then she reached the final of the super tournament in Indian Wells, traditionally won the title in Ponte Vedra Beach, until trouble happened in Charleston - in the semifinal match with Vera Zvonareva, Karolin twisted her ankle and actually disrupted preparations for Roland Garros, losing at European clay tournaments in the first circles. However, in Paris, she performed quite successfully, reaching the quarterfinals.
On the grass courts of Wimbledon, Wozniacki confidently reached the fourth round, but there she was waiting for a uniform defeat from one of the main sensations of the Czech tournament Petra Kvitova 2:6 0:6. After that, Karolin not without difficulty won a small tournament in her second homeland in Copenhagen, beating Clara Zakopalova 6:2 7:6 in the decisive match.
Another success awaited her at the American Series: Wozniacki won the most significant title in her career so far, having won a major tournament in Montreal (in the final, Caroline defeated Vera Zvonareva 6:3 6:2), and literally 5 days later she was already celebrating a victory at slightly less representative competition in New Haven.
At the US Open, Carolyn unexpectedly became the first seed (after the removal of Serena Williams) and was considered one of the main favorites for the tournament. She won the first five matches without problems, without giving up a set to her rivals, but in the semifinals she could not oppose Vera Zvonareva 4:6 3:6.
October 11, 2010 Caroline for the first time in her career rose to the first line of the world rankings.
