Caroline Wozniacki

Caroline is the only Danish player who is in the top 500 on the WTA Tour. Born on July 11, 1990 in Odense, she earned her number 34 rank in May 19, 2008. The 21-year old professional tennis player speaks fluent Polish, Danish and English. She became trilingual being born to parents from Poland.

In July 19, 2005 Caroline made her first appearance at Cincinnati’s Western and Southern Financial Group Women’s Open in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. She lost a tournament to Patty Schnyder in the first round who became the champion later on. Caroline also appeared in the Orange Bowl tennis championship that same year.

At the Australian Open in 2006 for the junior girl’s single, Caroline lost a final game to Russian player, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova but was seeded second in the doubles tournament with Anna Tatishvili. Duo Alice Cornet and Corinna Dentoni, seeded eighth, and won in the semi-final instead.

In February 2007, Caroline finally earned the singles title to Alberta Brianti, an Italian player. After a month of same year she won in the finals to Akiko Morigami in Las Vegas.

Early 2008, Caroline lost an exhibition game to Maria Sharapova but won the doubles event when she paired with Venus Williams. Both games were played in Hong Kong. At the 2008 Australian Open Caroline Wozniacki defeated Argentine Dulko, Alyona Bondarenko, and Sabine Lisicki, but lost a game to Ana Ivanović.

2010 has been a very fruitful year for Wozniacki. Currently she is at the highest spot at No. 1 in the world, which she achieved in October 11, 2010. So far, her career record for singles is at 294-104. While she as 18 titles in the WTA and 4 titles in the ITF, she has not yet won a Grand Slam tournament. She did reach the Quarter final round of the French Open in 2010 and was in the Final round of the 2009 US Open. She also recently reached the semifinal round of the Australian Open in 2011.