Caroline Wozniacki was born on July 11, 1990 in Odense, Denmark. She is a professional tennis player.
Biography and Career :
She is a seventeen years old tennis player who turned professional in 2005. She has Polish origins because her parents were born there. As a junior player she won in 2005 the Orange Bowl tennis championship and lost the final at Australian Open in 2006 to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
After becoming professional she first participated at Cincinnati's Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open, but was defeated by Patty Schnyder, who would finally win the title.
At the tournament in Memphis in 2006 she managed to win against players like Kristina Brandi and Ashley Harkleroad and reach the quarter-finals. It was the first time when she had such a
performance. She then lost to Sofia Arvidsson.
She won the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament and then she received a wildcard for Wimbledon but didn't qualify. At the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm in August 2006 she reached the quarter-finals again.
The first title came at Istanbul and it is an ITF single title. Besides this one she has also won two ITF single tournaments, one at Ortisei where beat in the final Alberta Brianti and the second at Las Vegas after she beat Akiko Morigami in the final.
In 2007 she participated at the French Open but was eliminated in the first round and then at Wimbledon where reached the second round. In the same year she played at Indian Wells, but in the second round Martina Hingis beat her with 6-1, 6-3.
Trivia :
- Height: 177 cm
- Weight: 58 kg
- She plays: right-handed.
- She turned pro in 2005.
- She speaks fluentl English, Danish and Polish.
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