Caroline Wozniacki returns to the Australian Open!
The upcoming Australian Open will be the last tournament of Caroline Wozniacki ! She announced her retirement from tennis on Friday afternoon.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Dec 06, 2019, 03:12 pm
At the beginning of the upcoming season, one of the greats of the last few years leaves us: Caroline Wozniacki has announced her resignation via Instagram - after the Australian Open she wants to quit her racket.
"I used to say that when the time comes that other things besides tennis are more important to me, it's time to stop, and over the past few months, I've realized that there's more to life outside of the place To marry David was one of those goals, and to start a family, to travel on and raise awareness of rheumatoid arthritis is another project I want to push forward, "wrote Wozniacki.
Just over a year ago, the Dane announced that she was suffering from autoimmune disease . A project in this regard is about to start, she revealed.
However, her resignation has nothing to do with her health and is not a farewell. "I wholeheartedly thank all my fans, friends, sponsors, my team, especially my father as coach, my husband and my family for their support, and without you all, I would never have made it."
Long-awaited Grand Slam title in 2018
"I've achieved everything that I could have dreamed of," said Wozniacki - and that's a lot. The 29-year-old looks back on a very successful career. For 71 weeks, she was ranked # 1 in the world rankings, winning 30 individual tournaments, including the WTA Finals in 2017 and the Australian Open in 2018, her long-cherished dream: a Grand Slam tournament. Previously, she was twice defeated at the US Open in the final (2009, 2014).
After the victory in Melbourne Wozniacki also climbed again for four weeks, the number 1 in the WTA ranking. For the first time she stood on 11 October 2010 at the top.
In 2016, she slipped to seventeenth place after injuries but then made a miraculous comeback, culminating in the victory in Melbourne in a dramatic final against Simona Halep in 2018.