MELBOURNE (Ekstra Bladet): It must be a very special feeling to have to go into a battle and know that it may be his last.
You can close your eyes and imagine that Caroline Wozniacki must go through the exercise seven times at this year’s Australian Open and, perhaps, end completely yonder, where her last fight not even getting a defeat.
But okay, with open eyes I can see that the scenario is lost somewhere in the mist out between the Melbourne skyscrapers.
It kind of requires that many things go up in a higher unity, and is already upon a very important point is Caroline behind, before the tournament even serves in time.
Her defeat in the semi-final in Auckland was expensive in the way that she was not seeded to his last grand slam, and here she has got a brutal draw. Thus, it is far from unlikely, that the second round will be the end of the line.
Here waiting – probably – formstærke Dayana Yastremska, which comes straight from a finale in Adelaide. Caroline roses rarely young challengers by name, but with just the 23-year-old ukrainer she made an exception, since I asked her last year.
Caroline has hit the ball well to the training, so it gives a little optimism, despite a brutal draw. Photo: Roger Parker
she Would have to clear the hurdle, waiting for a top player, before – yes, you dare to bad think tank – Serena Williams may be waiting in the fourth round.
The match will be a dream come true. Both as a spectacular confrontation at a tennis court, and as a very special drama between two close girlfriends. Here it will not just be ketsjernes strings that vibrates. It will be emotional in the degree also.
Should the battle be his last after a close and gripping encounter, so it will almost be the værdigst possible output on caroline’s impressive process. For she first reached to the fourth round, she has also hit something in the vicinity of its tip-top condition.
she should preferably find most of the has already, in its first match against Kristie Ahn, as she must beat.
And along the way she must, somewhere, be able to forget the situation I described in the introduction.
no matter how well prepared and embattled she arrives in Melbourne, so I can’t help to wonder how motivated she is deep down.
For one thing, what she is telling both themselves and the outside world. Anything else is what happens in the layers of consciousness which as somewhere enough has begun to prepare for on-afskedens moment and the time after.
In today’s razor-sharp competition, they can’t afford to give significant percentages away, and he knows Caroline better than anyone. And the knowledge can together with her well-developed vindergen hopefully crowd out any unwelcome thoughts.
Caroline Wozniacki at the Australian Open
3. round: Maria Sharapova, Russia, 6-4 4-6 6-3
Win the final over Simona Halep 7-6, 3-6, 6-4
3. round: Johanna Contaminated, Britain, 6-3 6-1
1.round: Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 1-6 7-6(3) 6-4
2. round: Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 6-4 6-2
3. round: Garbiñe Muguruza, of Spain, 4-6 7-5 6-3
4. round: Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-2 2-6 7-5
Quarter-final: Kim Clijsters, Belgium, 6-3 7-6(4)
semi final: Na Li, China, 3-6 7-5 6-3
4. round: Na Li of China, 6-4 6-3
3. round: Jelena Dokic, Australia, 3-6 6-1 6-2
4. round: Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, 6-1 7-6(2)
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