Serena Williams

American proficient tennis player Serena Williams has won more than 20 Grand Slam singles titles and a few Olympic gold decorations.

Conceived in 1981 in Saginaw Michigan Serena Williams started escalated tennis preparing at age 3. She won her first significant title in 1999 and finished the vocation Grand Slam in 2003. Alongside her individual achievement Williams cooperated with sister Venus to win a progression of pairs titles. Her triumph at Wimbledon in 2015 made her the most established Grand Slam singles champion in the Open time.

American tennis player Serena Jameka Williams was conceived on September 26 1981 in Saginaw Michigan. The most youthful of Richard and Oracene Williams' five girls Serena Williams alongside her sister Venus would grow up to end up one of the sport's extraordinary champions.

Serena's dad—a previous tenant farmer from Louisiana resolved to see his two most youthful young ladies succeed—utilized what he'd gathered from tennis books and recordings to train Serena and Venus on the most proficient method to play the amusement. At the period of rehearsing on a court not a long way from the family's new Compton California home Serena withstood the rigors of day by day two-hour hones from her dad.

By 1991 Serena was 46-3 on the lesser United States Tennis Association visit, and positioned first in the 10-and-under division. Detecting his young ladies required better direction to wind up effective experts he moved his family once more—this opportunity to Florida. There, Richard let go of some of his honing obligations however not the administration of Serena's and Venus' profession. Careful about his girls wearing out too rapidly he downsized their lesser competition plan.

In 1995 Serena turned star. After two years she was at that point No. 99 on the planet rankings—up from No. 304 only 12 months prior. After a year she graduated secondary school and very quickly inked a $12 million shoe manage Puma. In 1999 she beat out her sister in their race to the family's first Grand Slam win when she caught the U.S. Open title.

It set the stage for a keep running of powerful prominent triumphs for both Williams sisters. With their mark style and play Venus and Serena changed the look of their game also. Their sheer power and athletic capacity overpowered rivals and their feeling of style and vicinity made them champion superstars on the court.

In 2002 Serena won the French Open the U.S. Open and Wimbledon crushing Venus in the finals of every competition. She caught her first Australian Open in 2003 making her one of just six ladies in the Open period to finish a profession Grand Slam. The win likewise satisfied her longing to hold every one of the four noteworthy titles at the same time to involve what she'd named "The Serena Slam." In 2008 she won the U.S. Open and collaborated with Venus to catch a second ladies' duplicates Olympic gold award at the Beijing Games.

Be that as it may, Serena likewise had her scratches and misfortunes. She experienced knee surgery in August 2003 and in September her relative Yetunde Price was killed in Los Angeles California. After three years Serena appeared to be worn out. Nibbled by wounds and only a general absence of inspiration to stay fit or contend at the same level she once had Serena saw her tennis positioning droop to 139.

Serena acknowledged her confidence as a Jehovah's Witness, and in addition a groundbreaking excursion she made to West Africa for recharging her pride and aggressive flame. By 2009 Williams had discharged another collection of memoirs Queen of the Court and won her place back on the world's rankings winning both the 2009 Australian Open singles (for the fourth time) and Wimbledon 2009 singles (for the third time). She likewise won the pairs matches at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon that year.

Yet, not all that matters went easily. Williams stood out as truly newsworthy in September of that year, when she impacted a lineswomen for a foot-deficiency called close to the end of an elimination round misfortune to consequent champion Kim Clijsters at the U.S. Open. The obscenity bound upheaval included blame dispensing and as indicated by the lineswoman an asserted danger from Serena against her life.

Williams made light of what happened disproving the affirmation that she'd debilitated the lady. Be that as it may, the episode did not run over well with the tennis survey open nor the U.S. Tennis Association which fined her $10,000 on the spot. After two months she was set on two-year probation and requested to pay another $82500 to the Grand Slam council for the episde the biggest discipline ever exacted against a tennis player.

By mid 2010, however Serena was doing her best to move past the episode. Sufficiently granted that year she won the Australian Open singles and copies matches and additionally her fourth Wimbledon singles title.

In 2011 Williams endured a progression of wellbeing panics after specialists discovered a blood coagulation in one of her lungs which kept her far from tennis for a while. Taking after a few methods including one to evacuate a hematoma theory ascended in the matter of whether Williams would resign from the game. Her wellbeing had enhanced by September 2011 however and Williams seemed as though her old predominant self at the U.S. Open before tumbling to Samantha Stosur in the finals.

Williams staggered severely at the 2012 French Open bearing a first-round misfortune surprisingly at a noteworthy competition. In any case, she was back in top structure in London that late spring overcoming 23-year-old Agnieszka Radwanska in an enthusiastic three sets to claim her fifth Wimbledon singles title and first real title in two years. Taking after the win Williams raced to her family in the stands with tears in her eyes and embraced them for a few seconds. In a post-Wimbledon meeting with ESPN she was asked whether she thought she could best the win and replied: "Would you say you are joking? The [2012] U.S. Open the Australian Open the French Open Wimbledon 2013."

At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games Serena beat Maria Sharapova to take her first gold decoration in ladies' singles. The following day, she guaranteed her fourth general Olympic gold decoration by collaborating with sister Venus to thrashing Czech Republic stars Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in ladies' duplicates.

Williams proceeded with her triumphant streak to her next Grand Slam occasion. In September 2012 she beat out opponent Victoria Azarenka to take the singles title at the U.S. Open. As per USA Today, Williams wasn't certain that she'd develop triumphant. "I genuinely can't trust I won. I was truly reparing my runner-up discourse, on the grounds that I thought Man she's playing so awesome.'"

In 2012 she caught her fifth Wimbledon singles title. After a month at the London Olympic Games Serena won a gold decoration in the singles occasion turning into the second lady (behind Steffi Graf) to win a profession Golden Slam. She likewise cooperated with Venus to win the duplicates occasion. Soon thereafter Serena asserted her fifteenth Grand Slam singles title with a triumph at the U.S. Open. In 2013 she won her second French Open singles title and fifth U.S. Open singles title. Williams effectively guarded her U.S. Open title in 2014 which gave her 18 vocation Grand Slam titles tying her with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova for the second most noteworthy ladies' singles aggregate of the open time. The next year she caught her 6th Australian Open. Williams then won the 2015 French Open—her twentieth aggregate Grand Slam singles title. She proceeded with her torrid streak at Wimbledon winning a straight-set last to catch her 6th vocation Wimbledon singles title.

At this point Williams had caught 15 Grand Slam singles titles and 13 Grand Slam duplicates titles. "I might want to leave an imprint," Williams once said in regards to her remaining in the tennis world. "I think clearly I will, because of the way that I'm accomplishing something other than what's expected in tennis. Be that as it may, I don't think I could ever achieve something like a Martina Navratilova—I don't think I'd ever play that long—yet who knows? I think I'll leave an imprint notwithstanding."

In June 2013 Williams took her second French Open title—and also her sixteenth Grand Slam singles title—in a 6-4 6-4 triumph over guarding champion Sharapova. "I'm still a tiny bit upset about that misfortune a year ago," Williams said in a meeting with ESPN taking after the match. "In any case, it's about, for me, how you recuperate. I think I've generally said a champion isn't in regards to the amount they win, yet it's about how they recuperate from their downs, whether it's a damage or whether it's a misfortune."

About one month later, Williams contended at Wimbledon, where she endured a stunning misfortune (6-2, 1-6, 6-4) in the fourth round to Germany's Sabine Lisicki, the No. 23 seed. Her profession best 34-match winning streak over, Williams told Sports Illustrated, "I don't believe it's a gigantic stun. [Lisicki] is an awesome player. Her positioning has no impact on what she ought to be. She ought to be positioned higher. She simply has a super, super amusement to play well on grass."

At the U.S. Open, Williams made a solid appearing. She thumped out her more youthful opponent Sloane Stephens in the fourth round before overturning Azarenka to secure the U.S. Open title. It was the second year in succession that the pair had gone head to head in the finals.

Williams secured her third straight and 6th general U.S. Open singles title in 2014 by vanquishing her great companion Caroline Wozniacki. Her triumphant courses conveyed into the new year, as she beat Sharapova to guarantee the 2015 Australian Open title. At the French Open in June, Williams figured out how to overcome sickness to win the competition for the third time and claim her twentieth Grand Slam singles title, useful for third place unequaled.

"When I was a young lady in California and my dad and my mom needed me to play tennis," she told the group in French after her triumph. "Also, now I'm here, with 20 Grand Slam titles."

Looking to add to her equipment gathering that late spring, Williams needed to overcome enormous sister Venus to progress past the fourth round at Wimbledon. A couple of days after the fact, she vanquished Garbine Muguruza in the last to claim her second vocation "Serena Slam" and turn into the most established Grand Slam singles champio

Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova has won different respects all through her vocation, including the 2012 and 2014 French Open and a silver award in ladies' singles at the 2012 Olympics.

Maria Sharapova was conceived on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Russia. She began playing tennis at an early age and turned proficient at 14 years old. Sharapova won Wimbledon in 2004 against Serena Williams and has gone ahead to win the U.S. Open and Australian Open. In 2012, she won the French Open, turning into the tenth lady to finish a vocation Grand Slam. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games—Sharapova's Olympic debut—she won a silver award in ladies' singles, losing the gold to American tennis star Serena Williams.

Tennis player Maria Sharapova was conceived on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, Siberia, Russia. Sharapova started playing tennis as a youthful youngster, and at age 9 was taken by her dad to Florida, where she selected at a tennis institute.

harapova turned proficient at 14, asserted her first WTA triumph at the 2003 AIG Japan Open furthermore came to the fourth round at Wimbledon on her first endeavor amid that year. Achievement came in 2004 when she won the singles title there, turning into Russia's first lady Wimbledon champion. Toward the end of 2004 she added the WTA Championship title to her accomplishments. She was positioned No. 4 toward the begin of 2006 and that year won the U.S. Open.

In 1993, Maria was going to a tennis presentation competition in Moscow when Martina Navratilova saw her possibility. The tennis legend a short time later recommended Youri to put her under the preparation of Nick Bollettieri at his prestigious foundation in Bradenton, Florida, U.S., since she trusted that it would be the best place for the young lady to build up her aptitudes. After some thought, Youri at long last chose to take after Navratilova's recommendation, in this manner taking Maria to U.S. despite the fact that he fundamentally couldn't communicate in English nor conveyed enough cash to bolster their live there. Upon their entry in the foundation, one of its mentors consented to look at her. She effectively awed the man as she reviewed: "Then I hit a couple balls and he summoned Nick right." Sensing the astonishing ability she had, Bollettieri place her in regardless of the grumblings of different folks who considered the outside young lady was excessively youthful and not sufficiently skilled.

While Maria contemplated tennis with diligence, Youri fretfully worked a wide range of employments to pay her preparation cost so them two from time to time met one another. Also, Yelena was not able come to U.S. due to visa limitations and the family's money related circumstance until the following couple years. This condition unquestionably made her very discouraged as she has conceded: "I didn't see my mum for a long time and I scarcely saw my father for one year. I was living in a quarters independent from anyone else and yielded a considerable measure of things." Fortunately, things turned better as her magnificent headway drew the consideration of International Management Group (IMG) in this way conceded her a full grant. Every last bit of her anxiety eventually could be put behind when Yelena finally could arrive her feet securely in U.S. Maria a short time later set to set herself up to enter tennis competition. By 1997, she had as of now wandered into prestigious rivalry at Eddie Herr International Junior Championships in 14-and-under division.

Maria at last earned her first trophy by winning the singles at Angela Maria Lopera in October 2000. The thirteen-years of age young lady immediately picked up the second one, being the G16 Singles Winner at Eddie Herr International Junior Championships in just a month after her introductory triumph. On April 19, 2001, she turned proficient and made her presentation at an ITF occasion in Sarasota on April 29. In spite of the fact that she lost to Karin Lynn Miller in the round of 32, she satisfyingly scored heavenly accomplishment in the lesser competitions amid the year, gathering four trophies in singles. Under the drilling of her own dad and Robert Lansdorp, Maria's star shone brighter by the year of 2002. Subsequent to getting the Target Cup at the Nasdaq-100 Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, she got her first triumph in master as she won ITF Championship in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. To everybody's amazement, she cleared two more trophies at the same rivalry in Vancouver and Peachtree City.

Completely focused on ace, Maria kept on inspiring individuals with her splendid abilities by 2003. She asserted her first WTA singles title as she turned into the victor of Japan Open in October. In the same rivalry, she additionally was triumphant in twofold, imparting her triumphant to Tamarine Tanasugarn. Inside of 2 months, she included one more trophy as she beat Milagros Sequera in the last of WTA Championship held in Quebec City. This specific year likewise denoted her first passage to Grand Slam, contending at Australian Open on January. She made sensation when she effectively went to the fourth round of the prestigious Wimbledon in July before lost to her countryman, Svetlana Kuznetsova. This accomplishment positively made her tennis rank quickly climbed to the 32nd. She started the year of 2004 joining the Champions' Challenge show competition in Hong Kong. Just a smidgen near be the victor, she was seriously beaten by Venus Williams in the last.

Subsequent to contending at Australian Open, Tokyo Pan Pacific Open, and WTA Championship in Memphis, Maria's rank rapidly rose to 22nd. She a short time later entered French Open and was fruitful to endeavor to the quarterfinal, yet tragically was compelled to end her voyage there in Paola Suarez's hand. Be that as it may, her misfortune was paid off as she won the singles and copies titles at WTA Championship in Birmingham. In July, she handled her feet at Wimbledon with her fifteenth rank. Set on thirteenth seed, she convincingly advanced toward conclusive, confronting Serena Williams who around then was the first seed. Scoring 6-1 6-4, she superbly won the legitimate great hammer singles title. Not just turned into the third-most youthful ladies' singles champion in Wimbledon history, she additionally was the least seed ever to win this title. Meanwhile, her triumph helped her profession as she was set in the sixth of WTA Singles Rankings toward the end of the year.

Maria's tennis abilities grew to a great degree well by 2005. From every one of the competitions she was in, she was constantly fruitful to enter at any rate the quarterfinals. She included one additionally winning subsequent to overcoming Alicia Molik in the last of WTA Championship in Doha, Qatar. In June, she could rehash her triumph at WTA Championship in Birmingham, however she neglected to do likewise at Wimbledon as she surrendered to Venus Williams in the semi-last. Coming to the second rank, she was going to assume control over the most obvious spot when she joined JPMorgan Chase Open in Los Angeles. In any case, her right pectoral muscle damage had kept her to continue to the elimination round. It constrained her to pull back from the opposition, giving her a chance to adversary to have a walkover. Because of her condition, this striking competitor likewise needed to wipe out her appearance at Rogers Cup in Toronto, Canada.

Past her vocation as an expert tennis player, Maria ends up being extremely worried about the world matter. In December 2004, she appeared on a tennis presentation in Tampa to do philanthropy for the Florida Hurricane Relief Fund. Around the same time, she likewise participated in a presentation match in Bangkok and contributed in tidal wave help by giving an extensive entirety of cash. In the next year, she gave estimation of a Porsche Cayenne which she won at the 2004 WTA Tour Championships to the individuals who have been influenced by the Beslan Russian school prisoner emergency. Her accomplishment in tennis blended with her magnificence has guided her to be a representative for some prominent brands, to be specific Speedminton, Motorola, Parlux Fragrances, Canon, TAG Heuer, Honda Japan, and Colgate-Palmolive. The bashful young lady totally has changed into one of tennis symbols on the planet.

In 2007, a shoulder damage sidelined Sharapova and added to a progression of misfortunes, however she was still positioned among the Top 5 ladies' tennis players toward the end of that year. Her shoulder damage kept on plagueing her amusement, sidelining her in 2008. In 2009, Sharapova had surgery to repair the damage and following a year of restoration and a series of misfortunes, she began to make a rebound in 2011 when she completed the year positioned No. 4, her first Top 5 complete subsequent to 2007.

In June 2012, Sharapova crushed Sara Errani in the ladies' French Open, turning into the tenth lady to finish a vocation Grand Slam, winning every one of the four noteworthy tennis competitions.

At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games—Sharapova's Olympic debut—she won a silver award in ladies' singles, losing the gold to American tennis star Serena Williams. Sharapova came in second to Williams the next year at the French Open. She lost the singles titles to Williams in the last. That June, Sharapova made a not exactly great appearing at Wimbledon. She just made it to the extent the second round of rivalry.

In June 2014, Sharapova recovered energy when she won her second French Open title against Simona Halep. Subsequent to progressing to the last of the 2015 Australian Open, she then lost in the fourth round at the French Open, her most punctual way out from the competition since 2010.

Off the court, Sharapova's magnificence and prevalent offer have prompted real business supports with organizations including Nike and Tiffany and Co. Sharapova started an association with Slovenian proficient b-ball player Sasha Vujacic in 2009. Following a year of dating, the couple declared that they were occupied with October 2010. Amid a post-match gathering at the 2012 U.S. Open, she reported that the engagement was off and that her association with Vujacic had f

Martina Navratilova

Conceived in Czechoslovakia in 1956, Martina Navratilova started playing tennis at a youthful age, and was one of the top female tennis players on the planet in the late 1970s and mid '80s. Sometime down the road, she created a progression of fiction books and was dynamic in the gay rights development.

The most predominant female tennis player in the late 1970s and mid 1980s, Martina Navratilova was conceived as Martina Subertova on October 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now known as the Czech Republic). Her guardians separated when she was 3, and Navratilova and her mom, Jana, migrated from a ski lodge in the Krkonose Mountains for another life only outside of Prague. Therefore, Navratilova never developed near her dad, Miroslav Subert, a confused man who experienced sadness and later killed himself after the death of his second marriage.

In 1962, Navratilova's mom remarried, to a man named Mirek Navrátil. Navratilova in the long run took her stepfather's last name, tweaking it marginally by including a female "ova" toward the end. Navratilova and her new father developed close, with Mirek turning into her initial tennis mentor.

The diversion was absolutely in Navratilova's blood. Her grandma had been a global player who had upset the mother of Vera Sukova, a 1962 Wimbledon finalist, in a national competition. Navratilova's own particular tennis impulses were combined with an energy for development. At 4 years old, she was hitting tennis balls off of a concrete divider. By age 7, she was playing routinely, working with Mirek and investing hours on the court every day, chipping away at her strokes and footwork.

At age 9, Navratilova started taking lessons from Czech champion George Parma, who further refined the youthful player's amusement. At age 15, she won the Czech national title. In 1973, at 16, she turned master and started contending in the United States.

In 1982 Navratilova won 90 of 93 matches, including 41 back to back matches, and 15 competitions, quite the Wimbledon ladies' singles and the French Open ladies' singles. The next year she won 86 of 87 matches, the U.S. Open ladies' singles, the Wimbledon ladies' singles, and the Australian Open ladies' singles. Starting with the 1983 Wimbledon title, she won six continuous Grand Slam ladies' singles titles. The 1980s likewise denoted the stature of her benevolent contention with Chris Evert. Navratilova set her serve-and-volley diversion against Evert's standard style in 80 matches, winning 43 of them. In 1986 at Filderstadt, West Germany, she turned into the second player in present day tennis to win 1,000 matches.

By 1990 Navratilova had won the ladies' singles titles of the French Open twice (1982, 1984), the Australian Open three times (1981, 1983, 1985), the U.S. Open four times (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987), and Wimbledon a record nine times (1978, 1979, 1982–87, 1990). In 1987, alongside her singles title, she won both the ladies' copies and the blended pairs to wind up the first triple-crown champion at the U.S. Open following 1970. On winning her 158th title in 1992 in Chicago, Navratilova had gathered a larger number of titles than whatever other player, male or female, ever. She resigned from singles play after the 1994 season, having won 167 titles taking all things together

Throughout the following two years Navratilova contended in just a modest bunch of copies occasions, and from 1997 to 1999 she didn't play on visit. In 2000, in any case, she came back to expert play, contending in the duplicates occasion at a few competitions, including Wimbledon. That same year she was enlisted into the Tennis Hall of Fame. In 2003 she won the blended pairs (with Leander Paes) at Wimbledon to tie Billie Jean King for most Wimbledon titles generally (20). With the triumph, Navratilova, age 46, likewise turned into the most seasoned player to win at Wimbledon. Subsequent to winning the blended pairs at the U.S. Open in 2006, she resigned from focused play. Her profession aggregates incorporate 59 Grand Slam titles: 18 singles, 31 copies, and 10 blended pairs.

She came to the Wimbledon singles last 12 times, including nine back to back years from 1982 through 1990, and won the ladies' singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times. She likewise ties Billie Jean King's 20 Wimbledon titles by winning the blended copies in 2006. This was her last profession match at the ground.

On 7 April 2010, she reported that she was being dealt with for bosom growth after a normal mammogram in January that year uncovered a tumor. She had the tumor surgically evacuated and got radiation treatment in May 2010, helping her beat the illness.

Navratilova has following showed up on ITV's 'I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!' and made her presentation on 'Hitting the dance floor with the Stars' in the US on 20 March 2012. Notwithstanding coming base of the pioneer board, she wowed gatherings of people with her new long blonde l

Andre Agassi

Andre Agassi is best known for his solid, savvy playing style, which offered him some assistance with winning tennis titles all through the 1990s.

Conceived in 1970, Andre Agassi won a few USTA junior national titles before turning proficient at 16 years old. In 1992, Agassi won his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon. More triumphs soon took after with a U.S. Open win in 1994 and the Australian Open in 1995. After a vocation droop, Agassi came back to top structure in 1999 with wins at the U.S. Open and French Open. He resigned from rivalry in 2006.

For a long time, tennis legend Andre Agassi was one of the predominant players in his game. He initially got a racket when he was a little child at the request of his dad. His dad, an outsider from Iran and a previous Olympic boxer, served as his first mentor, making Agassi hone for a considerable length of time at the family's Las Vegas, Nevada home.

In his mid-high schoolers, Agassi surrendered his instruction to prepare full time. He moved to Florida where he went to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. Agassi ended up being one of the top junior players in the game, winning a few U.S. Tennis Association national titles. At sixteen years old, Agassi chose the time had come to contend in the major associations. The youthful tennis player turned proficient in 1986.

When he initially touched base on the tennis scene, Agassi knocked some people's socks off and cocked eyebrows with his wild hair and splendid apparel. The riotous competitor rapidly had a support manage Nike before winning a title. Some pondered whether there was any substance behind of his young great looks and ostentatious style. While Agassi won his first rivalry in 1987, yet he neglected to secure a noteworthy title amid his initial profession. In 1992, Agassi quieted his commentators with a win at Wimbledon, his first Grand Slam title.

After his Wimbledon win, Agassi had a few more Grand Slam triumphs in the mid 1990s. He took the top spot at the U.S. Open in 1994. He was successful at the Australian Open in 1995, which offered him some assistance with climbing to the highest point of rankings that year. Unmistakably at the highest point of his diversion, Agassi won a gold award at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, Georgia. Off the court, appealling Agassi's own life turned into a famous point in the tabloids. He was impractically connected to vocalist Barbra Streisand before wedding on-screen character Brooke Shields in 1997.

Starting in 1997, Agassi experienced a troublesome patch, both professionally and by and by. He neglected to win any competitions that year, and the previous number-one player dropped altogether in the rankings. As indicated by his personal history Open, Agassi had been acquainted with precious stone meth by a companion. He tried positive for medications in 1997, however he told the Association of Tennis Professionals that his medication use had been incidental. Agassi guaranteed that he had "unwittingly" drank a medication bound drink having a place with a companion. Talking about his medication use, he later told People magazine that "I can't identify with fixation, yet many people would say that in case you're utilizing anything as a break, you have an issue.

Agassi credits the emotional, mid-90s recovery in his fortunes to his new mentor, Brad Gilbert, creator of Winning Ugly. The issue with JR, Andre's book mentor, is that he makes Writing Easy. His hand is too clearly touch. It isn't so much that Open peruses as though it's been composed with a perspective to a lucrative serial arrangement (sufficiently typical); it peruses as though it's now a serialization of itself with potential features (Agassi took precious stone meth!) and force cites ("I generally abhorred tennis") tossed in. Maybe this is the reason, oddly, it rings minimum valid at snippets of most extreme announced trustworthiness. "I've generally been a honest individual," Andre admits while setting up an independently unconvincing lie to clarify how he tried positive for meth.

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The facts might prove that, subsequent to orchestrating "a retirement fund of Nike stock" for a companion's wiped out youngster, Andre discovered that "the main flawlessness… is the flawlessness of helping other people", in any case, put like this, it sounds like he's simply marked another underwriting for Compassion Inc. Talking about which, subsequent to shooting himself in the foot with a Canon battle based around the motto "Picture Is Everything", Agassi feels "deceived by the promoting organization, the Canon executives", by everybody "who regards this absurd disposable trademark as though it's my Confession". That is the twist he puts on it. In any case, in this Confession – an admission in peril of being lessened to the motto "I detested tennis and took meth" – possibly we ought to have been told around what number of millions it took to bait him to partake in this treachery in any case.

Since the collection of memoirs of a tennis player is, by definition, self-serving, it merits remembering a 1996 article in which the late David Foster Wallace composed that he "loathe[d] Agassi with an enthusiasm" and discovered him, in individual, "about as charming as a Port Authority prostitute". So perhaps the abuse wasn't about a look – "soft, spiky, two-conditioned mullet, with dark roots and iced tips" – which, in reasonableness, appears to be much more over the top now than it did at the time. And still, at the end of the day, one suspected that Agassi's defiant picture was halfway made in consort with his supporters.

Still, it comes as a stun to discover that by 1990 the hair itself was made. Yes, he was wearing a hairpiece, which crumbled in the shower the night prior to the last of the French Open. It wasn't until 1994, by which time he had won titles at Wimbledon and the US Open and was living with Brooke Shields, that Agassi culled up the fearlessness to demonstrate his fluffy skull to the world. A significant change: having pondered only hitting tennis balls, he now begins resembling a tennis ball!

The last incarnation – duck-waddle Buddha, most established surviving veteran of the war of whittling down known as the ATP Tour – is still some way off. Prior to that, he plunges to 146 on the planet rankings, takes meth and parts from Brooke. After that, as we all know, he bobs back (that is the thing that tennis balls do), wins more Slams, courts and weds Steffi Graf, has children and sets up a completely honorable instructive establishment in the place where he grew up, Las Vegas. When he takes his last, sad bow at the US Open in 2006, he is all around and naturally loved. Vanquished, he backpedals to the locker room where players over a significant time span stand in unconstrained acclaim. All aside from Jimmy Connors, face clear and "arms firmly collapsed".

Andre first hit with Connors when he was four and experienced him consistently from there on. His father used to string Jimbo's rackets and would request that Andre take them over to him, an ordeal rendered humiliating by Connors' rudeness. The youthful Andre is also injured by the "huge, inept Romanian", Ilie Nastase.

No one, in any case, wounds Andre like his father. Deranged Mike Agassi modifies a tennis-ball machine with the goal that it splashes a great many balls at his kid, hollering at him – this will end up being Andre's counter-punching trademark – to hit the ball hard and on the ascent. Be that as it may, he is by all account not the only insane guardian – and Andre is by all account not the only bright ability – on the circuit. As Agassi makes the rounds, there are charming early looks of his adversaries: duping Jeff Tarango (later to accomplish distinction by raging off court at Wimbledon) and, at the Bollettieri Academy ("a celebrated jail camp"), future world number one Jim Courier.

Holding up in the wings is Agassi's foe, Pete Sampras. In tennis terms, theirs was an incredible contention, undermined, regardless of Nike's earnest attempts – recollect the commercial in which the pair of them sling up a net and begin duking it out in the road? – by the way that a gibbon with a racket would have conveyed more to the part than "Gun" Pete. Not at all like Agassi, Sampras is substance to be brilliant at tennis and absolutely uninterested in everything else. The interminably tormented Agassi begrudges him his "bluntness" and "dynamite absence of motivation".

In the long run turning his life around, Agassi dispatched a noteworthy rebound in 1999. He won two Grand Slam titles that year—the French Open and the U.S. Open. Agassi likewise rolled out improvements in his own life, separating his wife after about two years. He stayed concentrated on his amusement, permitting him to proceed with his triumphant ways. Agassi developed triumphant at the Australian Open in 2000, 2001, and 2003.

By 2006, Agassi's wellbeing issues had started to breaking point his capacity to play. He had been conceived with spinal irregularity and needed to pull back from a few rivalries that year in view of back issues. Agassi battled for one more Grand Slam title, however it was not to be. On September 4, 2006, Agassi lost his last proficient match to Benjamin Becker. Toward the end of the match, Agassi said an enthusiastic farewell to the diversion and to the about 23,000 individuals who had stuffed the stadium to see him play for the last time.

A committed giver, Agassi invests quite a bit of his energy nowadays on working instructive projects and activities. He made the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation in 1994, which gives at-danger kids in southern Nevada with instructive open doors and recreational exercises. The establishment raised the cash expected to begin the Andre Agassi College Preparatory School, which opened its entryways in West Las Vegas in 2001.

Hitched to kindred tennis extraordinary Steffi Graf since 2001, Agassi is dedicated to his gang. He and Graf have two youngsters together. The couple has additionally collaborated the U.S. Tennis Association's 10 and Under Tennis Program. Agassi was drafted into the International

Rafael Nadal

Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal has won a record nine French Open singles titles and is one of only two men to win all four majors and Olympic gold.

Born in Spain in 1986, Rafael Nadal began playing tennis at age 3 and turned pro at 15. Known for his topspin-heavy shots and tenacity, he claimed the first of a record nine French Open singles titles in 2005, and competed the career Golden Slam by winning the U.S. Open in 2010. Sidelined by a knee injury in 2012, Nadal rebounded to win two more major championships in 2013.

Rafael Nadal was born in Mallorca, Spain, on June 3, 1986. When he was 3 years old, his uncle, Toni Nadal, a former professional tennis player, started working with him, seeing an aptitude for the sport in young Rafael.

At the age of 8, Nadal won an under-12 regional tennis championship, giving Uncle Toni the incentive to step up his training. Toni noticed at the time that Rafael played his forehand shots with two hands, so he encouraged him to play left-handed, thinking it could give Rafael an edge on the court.

When Nadal was just 12 years old, he won the Spanish and European tennis titles in his age group. He turned professional at age 15.

By the time he was eight-years-old, Nadal had won an under-12 regional tennis championship even though he was also a promising football player at the same time. After this win, his uncle intensified Nadal's training and encouraged him to play left-handed to give him an advantage on the court.

When Nadal was 12 years he won the Spanish and European tennis titles in his age group before turning professional at the age of 15 in 2002. He participated in two events on the ITF junior circuit and reached the semi-finals of the Boy's Singles tournament at Wimbledon in the first of these at the age of 16.

By the age of 17, Nadal had become the youngest man to reach the third round at Wimbledon since Boris Becker. He continued playing tennis and his first big win came in 2005 when he was aged 19 years. Nadal won the French Open - the first time he took part in the Grand Slam - and his world ranking rocketed to number three. He won 11 singles titles that year, with eight of these wins taking place on clay. For this, Nadal was dubbed the 'King of Clay'.

Nadal went on to win the French Open in 2006 despite having both foot and shoulder injuries. He went on to win four other titles that year. In 2007, Nadal won the French Grand Slam again and took home another five titles.

He enjoyed one of his best years in 2008 winning the French Open for the third time and playing his long-standing rival Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final for the third consecutive year. This was the most anticipated match of their rivalry as Nadal entered the game with a 23-match winning streak, while Federer had reached the final without losing a single set.

They played the longest in terms of time on court Wimbledon final in history. Because of a rain delay, Nadal won the fifth set 9-7 in near darkness. This match is widely regarded as the greatest Wimbledon final in history, with some even claiming this was the best in tennis history.

Nadal took home his first Wimbledon title and became the third man in the open era to win both the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year. He also became the second Spaniard to win the British tennis tournament. It also ended Federer's record streak of five Wimbledon wins in a row.

Later that year, he won his second Rogers Cup title and won the US Open Series, making him the tennis world number one for the first time. This ended Federer's four-and-a-half year rule at the top. Nadal then went on to win gold at the Beijing Olympics and became the first male player ranked in the top five to do so.

However, in the last few months of the year Nadal had to retire from several matches due to a knee injury. Since then, he has been occasionally hampered by injuries but has still remained one of the greatest tennis players in the world.

He has won 15 titles since 2008 and in 2009, Nadal won the Australian Open and defended his Wimbledon title. He also went on to win his first US Open and fifth French Grand Slam in 2010.

The following year, he lost his world number one ranking as well as Wimbledon to Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic. Nadal bounced back from defeat in June this year to beat Djokovic to win his record seventh French Open title, which has never been accomplished before.

At 2012's Wimbledon, Nadal lost to Czech player Lukas Rosol in the Wimbledon second round, which some commentators have labelled one of the biggest upsets in tennis history. Nadal is only the second male tennis player to complete the Career Golden Slam, which means winning the French, Australian and US Opens, Wimbledon and the Olympics gold medal. He is currently ranked number one in the world, due to an impressive comeback in 2013.

In terms of his personal life, he has been dating Maria Francisca Perello, an insurance company employee, since 2005. He also released his autobiography Rafa in August 2011.

Despite enduring shoulder and foot injuries, Nadal won his second straight French Open and added four more titles in 2006. The following year, he won again at Roland Garros and took home five other titles. Nadal poured it on in 2008, winning the French Open again, in addition to winning Wimbledon—where he beat rival Roger Federer in the longest final in Wimbledon history—as well as gold at the Beijing Olympics. After Wimbledon, Nadal's winning streak stood at a career-best 32 matches.

With his powerful topspin-heavy shots, speed and mental toughness, Nadal reigned as one of the "Big Four" of men's tennis (along with Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray) for the next several years. He took over as the world's No. 1 in 2008, and won his first Australian Open in 2009. In 2010, he was triumphant at the French Open and Wimbledon, and his subsequent win at the U.S. Open made him just the second men's player to achieve the career Golden Slam—victories at all four majors, as well as Olympic gold.

The following year, Nadal led the Spanish Davis Cup team to victory for the fourth time, but he surrendered his No. 1 ranking after losing to Djokovic in the Wimbledon final. He gained some revenge by defeating the Serbian star at Roland Garros the following spring to claim a record seventh French Open singles crown. However, Nadal followed with a surprising second-round loss to Czech player Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon, a match some commentators labeled one the biggest upsets in tennis history. Afterward, Nadal announced he was withdrawing from the 2012 Summer Olympics due to knee tendinitis, an injury that knocked him out of action for several months.

In June 2013, Nadal won his eighth French Open title by defeating fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in straight sets. "I never like to compare years, but it's true that this year means something very special for me," Nadal said after the match, in an interview with ESPN. "Five months ago nobody of my team dreamed about one comeback like this because we thought that [was] going to be impossible. But here we are today, and that's really fantastic and incredible."

Later that month at Wimbledon, Nadal lost in straight sets in the first round to Belgium's Steve Darcis. It was a shock to tennis fans who expected a strong performance from the Spanish player, leading to speculation about the state of his health and overall game. But Nadal was back on the upswing by the U.S. Open, where he defeated Djokovic to win his second championship at the tournament. The win helped propel Nadal back to the top spot in the world that October.

In June 2014, Nadal won his ninth French Open championship by topping Djokovic in four sets. It was his 14th Grand Slam title, tying him with Pete Sampras for second all-time behind the 17 won by Federer. However, he withdrew from the 2014 U.S. Open in August, citing a wrist injury, and played a limited schedule for the remainder of the year.

Nadal advanced through the field at the 2015 Australian Open, but his physical capabilities appeared compromised when he fell to hard-hitting Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals. He then suffered a stunning quarterfinal loss to Djokovic at the French Open, his first defeat at the tournament since 2009 and just the second overall of his career.

After winning the 2015 MercedesCup in Germany, Nadal stumbled in a second-round loss to Dustin Brown at Wimbledon. He then fell to Fabio Fognini in the third round of the U.S. Open, snapping his streak of 10 consecutive years with at least one Grand Slam title.

At the age of 19, in 2005, Nadal won the French Open the first time he competed in the tournament, and his world ranking shot to No. 3. Nadal won 11 singles titles that year, eight of which were on clay, and he was soon dubbed the "King of Clay."

Novak Djokovic

Serbian professional tennis player Novak Djokovic won his first of multiple Grand Slam championships in 2008 and took over the world's No. 1 ranking in 2011.

Born in Serbia in 1987, Novak Djokovic began playing tennis at age 4, and was sent to train in Germany at age 13. After a steady ascent to the top levels of the sport, he won the Australian Open in 2008 and led the Serbian national team to its first Davis Cup win in 2010. In 2011, he claimed three of four Grand Slams and compiled a 43-match winning streak en route to the world's No. 1 ranking.

Novak Djokovic was born on May 22, 1987, in Belgrade, Serbia. Father Srdjan and mother Dijana owned the company Family Sports, which had three restaurants and a tennis academy. Djokovic's father, uncle and aunt were all professional skiers, and his father also excelled at soccer, but Djokovic was a tennis prodigy.

He is considered the best male tennis player to ever come out of Serbia, the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans. Djokovic is also a double winner of The Best Sportsperson of Serbia award and the award for The Best Sportsman by the Olympic Committee of Serbia. He has been awarded the Order of St. Sava, the highest decoration of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Djokovic is a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia.

In the summer of 1993, at 6 years old, Djokovic was spotted by Yugoslavian tennis legend Jelena Gencic at his parents' sports complex. Gencic then worked with Djokovic for the next six years. During this time, the war in former Yugoslavia and the bombing of Belgrade meant that, for almost three months, Djokovic and his family would spend a few hours in the middle of each night in the basement. Djokovic has said that the hardships of war drove him to pursue tennis with even greater determination. At 13, he was sent to the Pilic Academy in Munich, Germany, to pursue higher levels of competition. In 2001, at age 14, he began his international career.

The 14-year-old Djokovic ended 2001 as a triple European champion in singles, doubles and team competition. He won the silver medal at the World Junior Championship in a team competition for Yugoslavia. At 16, after winning five ITF tournaments, he was ranked the 40th best junior tennis player in the world. In 2004, he won his first ATP Challenger tournament in Budapest, where he started as a qualifier. The following year, he qualified at Wimbledon and reached the third round, moving him up the rankings and into the Top 100.

In the 2007 season, Djokovic played the semifinals of the French Open and Wimbledon. He won his second Masters title in Montreal, beating the Top 3 players—Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick—which made him No. 3 in the world. He competed for Serbia in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and won a bronze medal in singles tennis. In 2010, the Serbian national team clinched the Davis Cup trophy for Serbia for the first time in history. Djokovic went on to win 43 matches in a row in 2011, the only player in the world to achieve such a run. That same year, he won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open to become the world's No. 1 tennis player.

In 2012, Djokovic won the Australian Open singles title, and made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon. He was beaten in the semifinals, however, by longtime rival Roger Federer—who went on to win the Wimbledon final against Andy Murray. Later that year, Djokovic faced off against Murray himself in the final at the U.S. Open. He fought hard against Murray, but he ended up losing the match after five sets.

For the third year in a row, Djokovic took home the men's singles title at the Australian Open in 2013. He was the runner-up at Wimbledon that year, losing in the final to Andy Murray. At the U.S. Open, Djokovic was the top-ranked player. He easily dispatched his opponents in the first three rounds of play, but he lost in the final to Rafael Nadal.

In 2014, Djokovic claimed his second Wimbledon title in an epic five-set win over seven-time champion Roger Federer. It was his seventh Grand Slam title. At the 2014 U.S. Open, Djokovic defeated Andy Murray to reach the semifinals for the eighth time. He was subsequently defeated in the semifinals by Japan’s Kei Nishikori, who became the first player from that country to make it to the Grand Slam final.

Djokovic kicked off 2015 by winning the Australian Open over Andy Murray after a heated battle on the blue court. It was his fifth Australian Open title and the eighth Grand Slam title of his career. He then knocked off nine-time champion Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of the French Open, but fell short in his bid to claim his first French crown with a loss to Stan Wawrinka in the final.

Djokovic was back in the thick of things at Wimbledon in July 2015, defeating Richard Gasquet in the semifinals before upending Federer to win his third singles title on the famed grass courts.

Djokovic speaks Serbian, Italian, German and English. His two younger brothers, Marko (born in 1991) and Djordje (born in 1995), are both in school and play tennis. Djokovic's lighthearted personality has earned him the nickname "Djoker," a combination of his surname and the word "joker." He is known for his humorous off-court impersonations of fellow tennis players.

Djokovic took up tennis at age four and quickly ascended the junior ranks. Despite the hardships that came with growing up in the war-torn Serbia of the 1990s, he became Europe’s top-ranked 14-and-under player and later the number one 16-and-under player on the continent before turning professional in 2003. Djokovic entered the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) at age 18, and in July 2006 he won his first ATP event. After advancing to the semifinals at both the 2007 French Open and Wimbledon, he reached the finals of that year’s U.S. Open but lost in straight sets to Roger Federer. Djokovic’s hot play continued into 2008 as he won the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open, becoming the first Serbian man to win one of tennis’s four most prestigious singles championships.

Djokovic’s progress plateaued for almost three years, as he won just 10 ATP men’s singles tournaments and reached only one Grand Slam final (the 2010 U.S. Open) between February 2008 and the end of 2010. His fortunes turned in December 2010 when he led the Serbian Davis Cup team to the country’s first Davis Cup title. His Davis Cup victories marked the beginning of a 43-match winning steak—the third longest such streak in the Open era (since 1968)—which included a second Australian Open title in January 2011. Djokovic’s remarkable streak ended with a French Open semifinal loss to Federer, but his strong play helped him rise to the number one world ranking shortly after he defeated Rafael Nadal to capture the 2011 Wimbledon championship. Djokovic later defeated Nadal in the U.S. Open final to claim his third Grand Slam title of the year.

At the Australian Open in 2012, he again bested Nadal, winning a five-set thriller that lasted nearly six hours. The two met for the fourth consecutive Grand Slam final at the 2012 French Open, where Djokovic lost to Nadal in four sets. In 2013 Djokovic defeated Andy Murray to win his fourth Australian Open title, and he captured another Wimbledon championship the following year when he beat Federer in a dramatic five-set final. He again beat Murray to capture his fifth career Australian Open in 2015, which made Djokovic the all-time leader in Australian Open men’s singles championships during the Open era. After a loss in the 2015 French Open final, the top-ranked Djokovic bested Federer to win his third Wimbledon championship.

Djokovic is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Christian church, and in April 2011, he was awarded the Order of St. Sava, 1st class, the highest decoration given, "for his demonstrated love for the church and the Serbian people." He participates in the Champions for Peace club, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.

He created the Novak Djokovic Foundation to help disadvantaged children in Serbia obtain an education and provide resources to lead productive and healthy lives.

Djokovic began dating Jelena Ristic in 2005. The couple became engaged in 2013 and wed on July 10, 2014 – just days after his Wimbledon win. The couple welcomed their first child, a son named Stefan, on October 21, 2014.

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.