Tennis sensation Caroline Wozniacki earned her money on Monday, playing nearly two complete matches before hoisting the Rogers Cup trophy in Montreal.
After suffering a third round exit in her previous tournament, the second-ranked Dane seemed to rediscover her form in the Canadian WTA tournament’s quarter-finals, easily beating French Open champion Francesca Schiavone 6-3, 6-2.
In the semi-finals on Saturday, she was leading number 11th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 2-0 when rain halted play for the rest of the day. The players had to wait until Monday to resume, and Wozniacki picked up where she left off, cruising to a 6-2, 6-3 victory.
The rain delay meant the final had to be played later that same day, and another Russian, eighth seed Vera Zvonareva, was Wozniacki’s opponent. But the 20-year-old Dane crushed her as well by the same score she beat Kuznetsova, earning her ninth WTA title – her sixth on the hard courts.
Next up for Wozniacki is this week’s Pilot Pen tournament in New Haven, Connecticut, where the Dane is the two-time defending champion.
She is currently ranked number two in the world and goes into both the Pilot Pen tournament and the following week’s US Open as the number one seed, due to an injury to top-ranked Serena Williams.
The Copenhagen Post
