Fri, 10/29/2010 - 08:11 by harsheeb
Doha -- Caroline Wozniacki's come-from-behind win Thursday at the WTA Championships in Qatar allowed her to lock up the year-end No. 1 ranking.
Wozniacki, playing her final round-robin match, took out Francesca Schiavone 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. She was clearly outplayed in the first set but only faced one break point after that.
The decision means Wozniacki will keep the No. 1 spot she took over Oct. 11 through the end of the year.
It also put her on the verge of advancing to the WTA Championships semifinals.
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Wed, 10/27/2010 - 05:25 by Prince damin
Doha, Qatar -- World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki opened round-robin play Tuesday at the WTA Championships in Qatar with a solid win over Elena Dementieva.
Wozniacki, who has won 25 of her last 26 matches, breezed past Dementieva, the No. 7-seed, 6-1, 6-1 in 54 minutes. Wozniacki lost only eight points in her seven service games and claimed 60 percent of the points off Dementieva's serve.
In the other Maroon Group match Tuesday, fifth-seeded Samantha Stosur rallied for a 6-4, 6-4 win over fourth-seeded Francesca Schiavone. Stosur dropped serve twice while Schiavone was building a 4-0 lead in the first set, but she then broke Schiavone at love and ran off six straight wins.
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Mon, 10/11/2010 - 21:35 by harsheeb
Beijing -- Caroline Wozniacki capped her first day as the world's No. 1-ranked women's tennis player with a win in the finals of the China Open.
Wozniacki was assured of replacing Serena Williams at the top of the rankings after she reached the China Open quarterfinals but continued her winning ways, beating world No. 4 Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Zvonareva had beaten Wozniacki in the semifinals of the U.S. Open last month.
Wozniacki overcame an early break in the first set and cashed in the only break opportunity for either player in the third set. It was her sixth tournament crown of the year and fifth since Wimbledon. She's won 30 of her last 32 matches.
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Mon, 10/04/2010 - 21:09 by harsheeb
Daytona Beach -- Francesca Schiavone moved up two spots in Monday's world women's tennis rankings and Caroline Wozniacki inched closer to the No. 1 spot.
Schiavone advanced to the semifinals of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo last week and, as a result, moved from eighth to sixth in the world rankings.
The second five in the rankings are completely different this week. While the first five are the same, there could soon be a big change.
Wozniacki, who won the tournament in Tokyo, can overtake world No. 1 Serena Williams if Wozniacki advances to the quarterfinals of this week's WTA tournament in Beijing.
Williams, who has held the No. 1 spot for the last 48 weeks, has been sidelined by a foot injury since her win at Wimbledon.
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Fri, 09/10/2010 - 01:33 by Prince damin
New York -- Caroline Wozniacki and Kim Clijsters will play for a U.S. Open finals rematch in semifinals matches Friday in New York.
Clijsters defeated Wozniacki in the women's singles final of 2009's last Grand Slam event in a match somewhat overshadowed by Serena Williams' exit in the semis after she was penalized a point, giving Clijsters the match.
Clijsters, who had recently ended a two-year layoff from competitive tennis, then defeated Wozniacki 7-5, 6-3.
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Thu, 09/09/2010 - 10:27 by Rakhi
New York -- Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open for the second straight year Wednesday by ousting Dominika Cibulkova in straight sets.
Wozniacki defeated the unseeded Cibulkova 6-2, 7-5 to set up a semifinal meeting with Vera Zvonareva.
Zvonareva advanced earlier in the day with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Kaia Kanepi.
In her first 29 major championship appearances, Zvonareva reached the semifinals only once. Now she has made it to the semifinals in two consecutive grand slam tournaments, having also done so two months ago at Wimbledon.
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Tue, 09/07/2010 - 07:14 by Prince damin
New York -- Caroline Wozniacki defeated Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova made an unexpected exit from the U.S. Open in fourth-round action Monday.
The top-seeded Wozniacki, last year's U.S. Open runner-up to Kim Clijsters, pounced on 36 unforced errors from former champ Sharapova en route to a surprisingly easy 6-3, 6-4 victory.
Sharapova had entered the match 2-0 lifetime against the 20-year-old Dane.
Kuznetsova, meanwhile, was bounced by Slovak Dominika Cibulkova in another fourth-round match-up.
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Sun, 09/05/2010 - 08:48 by Prince damin
New York -- Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki and 2006 champion Maria Sharapova each logged third-round wins Saturday to advance at the U.S. Open.
Wozniacki had little trouble dispatching Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan 6-1, 6-0, in 73 minutes, continuing a hot streak this week in which she has dropped a total of three games in three matches.
Sharapova, meanwhile, breezed past American teenager Beatrice Capra 6-0, 6-0, also in 73 minutes. Sharapova and Wozniacki will meet in a blockbuster fourth-round match Monday.
Sharapova is 2-0 lifetime against Wozniacki, with both wins coming in 2008.
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Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:03 by Prince damin
New York -- Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki ran her winning streak to 12 matches Thursday, easily reaching the third round of the U.S. Open.
Wozniacki, who has captured her last two tournaments, stormed past Kai-Chen Chang 6-0, 6-0 in a second-round match that lasted only 47 minutes. Wozniacki will next meet Yung-Jan Chan, her second straight opponent from Taiwan.
Former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic and Maria Sharapova advanced Thursday and Andrea Petkovic ended the hopes of American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
The fourth-seeded Jankovic has struggled this summer, having lost five of her last seven matches, but she made it into the third round with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Mirjana Lucic.
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Sat, 08/28/2010 - 09:35 by Prince damin
New Haven, Conn. -- Caroline Wozniacki won a third-set tiebreak Friday to earn a berth in the championship match of the Pilot Pen.
The top-seeded Wozniacki, who will also carry that distinction into the U.S. Open next week, defeated Elena Dementieva1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) in a bid to capture her second straight tournament.
Her opponent in the finals will be Nadia Petrova, who got past Maria Kirilenko 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. Petrova has appeared in the finals of a WTA event 20 times, but this will be here first shot at a title since 2008.
Wozniacki won the Rogers Cup last week in Montreal and has captured 14 of her last 15 matches.
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Fri, 08/27/2010 - 10:15 by Prince damin
New Haven, Conn. -- Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki reached the semifinals of the Pilot Pen Thursday without having to take the court.
Wozniacki advanced when seventh-seeded Flavia Pennetta withdrew with an injury to her right foot.
By reaching the semifinals, Wozniacki clinched the U.S. Open Series -- a points race determined by finishes in events held in the United States prior to the playing of the U.S. Open. The year's fourth and final major begins Monday in New York.
If Wozniacki goes on to win the U.S. Open, she will receive a bonus of $1 million.
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Thu, 08/26/2010 - 09:24 by Prince damin
New Haven, Conn. -- No. 1 seed Caroline Wozniacki, despite suffering two service breaks in the first set, stormed into the quarterfinals Wednesday at the Pilot Pen.
Wozniacki eliminated Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 6-1 and stayed on track for her second straight tournament triumph. She won the rain-delayed event in Montreal Monday and will be the top seed at the U.S. Open -- the year's final major tourney which begins next Monday.
In the quarterfinals, Wozniacki will take on Flavia Pennetta, who posted a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Olga Govortsova.
Fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva advanced with a marathon win over Kateryna Bondarenko 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (5-7), 6-4. The match lasted more than 3 hours.
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