caroline wozniacki
caroline wozniacki
caroline wozniacki
Even though the tennis has not been starting until 5pm each day, after the sun has gone down, the desert heat can still get to the players after dark.Somehow, a tearful Wozniacki hobbled through the next four points of this WTA Tour match after cramping to hold serve, for her second round-robin victory from her first two appearances at the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships, which put her close to qualifying for the semi-finals here in the Gulf.
When Wozniacki had the attack of cramp, she collapsed on the court, and lay there on her back with her body going into spasm for several seconds, which made her opponent Vera Zvonareva’s earlier medical problem, a nosebleed, seem fairly small-scale.
The second match of the day was much more straightforward, as Serena Williams, who is guaranteed to end the year as the world No 1, became the first player to qualify for the semi-finals when the American beat Russia’s Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-4 for her third victory from her three appearances in the Maroon Group.
As on-court temperatures have been around 30 degrees Celsius in the evenings, it has been warm enough for players to have been reaching for the plastic sacks of ice-cubes during the changeovers – Wozniacki was using them to cool down her legs, and on one occasion also had one on top of her head – and to have been invoking the ‘heat rule’, which allows for a 10-minute break before a third set.
caroline wozniacki
caroline wozniacki
caroline wozniacki
caroline wozniacki
