Caroline Wozniacki

Women's tennis star Caroline Wozniacki became the first Danish player to claim the top spot in the world rankings.

rofessional tennis player Caroline Wozniacki was born on July 11, 1990, in Odense, Denmark. Named the WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2008, she advanced to her first major final at the 2009 U.S. Open. In 2010, she became the first Danish player to ascend to the top spot in the world rankings, and the fourth-youngest woman to finish the year ranked No. 1.

Caroline Wozniacki was born on July 11, 1990 in Denmark. Her athletic career was almost imminent, as she was born into a family of stellar athletes. Her father played professional soccer for Poland and Denmark, and her mother played volleyball for the Polish national team. Along with natural athletic ability and passion for the sport of tennis, Caroline has a calm, cheerful disposition, which quickly helped shape her reputation on the pro tour.

Caroline started playing tennis at age 7, and by the time she was 9, she was beating her parents and older brother. In 2005 at the young age of 15, Caroline turned pro and began her career on the WTA tour. In 2006, while still 15, Caroline made the junior singles final at the Australian Open, the junior doubles final at Roland Garros and later won the junior singles title at Wimbledon. She also won her first pro tournament, an ITF event, and made the quarterfinals at two other WTA events.

Professional tennis player Caroline Wozniacki was born on July 11, 1990, in Odense, Denmark. The daughter of two former professional athletes from Poland – dad Piotr was a soccer player and mom Anna a volleyball player – Wozniacki began playing tennis at age 7. Coached by her father, she counted tennis stars Martina Hingis and Steffi Graf among her inspirations.

When Wozniacki was 14, in 2004, she won the Osaka Mayor's Cup singles title. She went on to win other prestigious junior events, including the 2005 Orange Bowl and the 2006 Wimbledon girls' singles title. Working her way onto the pro circuit, she was named the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Newcomer of the Year in 2008.

At the 2009 U.S. Open, Wozniacki made it to the women's singles final, before losing to Kim Clijsters. That November, she reached the semifinals of the Sony Ericsson Championships, beating both Vera Zvonareva and Victoria Azarenka.

Shortly after advancing to the semifinals of the 2010 U.S. Open, Wozniacki became the first Danish player, man or woman, to ascend to the top of the world rankings. She was the fourth-youngest woman, after Hingis, Graf and Monica Seles, to finish the year ranked No. 1.

In 2011, Wozniacki advanced to the semifinals of the Australian Open and the U.S. Open. She struggled to reach the later rounds of major tournaments in subsequent years, but in 2014 she rebounded by playing her way into the final of the U.S. Open.



Wozniacki lives in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Her older brother, Patrik, is a professional soccer player.

Wozniacki was romantically linked to Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, until they announced the end of their engagement in May 2014. That autumn, she ran the New York City marathon.

caroline played her first full season on tour in 2007, cracking the Top 100 for the first time and finishing the year ranked #64. In 2008, she won the first three tour titles of her career, made the fourth rounds of the Australian and U.S. Opens, and finished the season with a #12 ranking. She added three more titles to her name in 2009, made the fourth round of Wimbledon in addition to the final of the U.S. Open, and ended the year ranked #4. Before Wozniacki, no Danish player—male or female—had ever cracked the top 30 rankings. Going into the 2010 season, Caroline’s game was red hot and she was able to notch another 6 WTA titles and finished the year in the #1 ranking, later keeping the that top spot for 67 straight weeks. In 2011, Wozniacki won another six WTA titles and recorded a WTA-leading 63 match wins. Caroline also added two more WTA titles to her resume during the 2012 season (Korea Open, Kremlin Cup), one title in 2013 in Luxembourg, and Istanbul in 2014.

At only the young age of 24, Caroline has accomplished what many athletes only dream of, winning a stellar 22 WTA tour titles and holding the #1 ranking spot for two consecutive seasons (2010, 2011). With exceptional tour experience behind her, Caroline is back in the top five and hopes to continue to stay at the top of the WTA rankings for many seasons to come.

Caroline Wozniacki seems to have all the right genes for a tennis star. Her father played professional soccer for Poland and Denmark, and her mother played volleyball for the Polish national team. Along with strong legs, good hands, and a great feel for spinning and placing a ball, Caroline has a calm, cheerful disposition, which can be as essential an asset as anything physical.

Caroline started playing tennis at age 7, and by the time she was 9, she was beating her parents and older brother.

Just after turning 15, in 2005, Wozniacki turned pro, but she only played two events and didn't have any main-draw wins. In 2006, while still 15, Caroline made the junior singles final at the Australian Open and the junior doubles final at Roland Garros, and she won the junior singles title at Wimbledon. She also won her first pro tournament, an ITF event, and made the quarterfinals at two WTA events.

2007 was the first year Caroline played a full pro schedule. She won two more ITF singles titles, made her first semifinal at a WTA event, and made the second rounds at Wimbledon and the US Open, thus working her way up to #88 in the world.

Wozniacki had a great 2008, winning three WTA singles titles and becoming the first Danish woman ever to win a WTA singles title. She made the fourth rounds at the Australian Open and the US Open and the third rounds at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Caroline finished 2008 ranked #12, and the WTA awarded her 2008 Newcomer of the Year.

Caroline's rocket still had plenty of fuel in 2009, as she won three more WTA titles, made four other WTA finals, and made the final at the US Open, becoming the first Dane in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam final.

Wozniacki also made the third or fourth rounds at the other three Slams and had a total of 67 main-draw wins for the season, the most on the Tour. Caroline finished 2009 ranked #4.