You simply have to hand it to Caroline Wozniacki. She gets dumped after the wedding invitations have already been sent out, and she rights her season's ship, winning the Istanbul tournament weeks later. She faces down a brief phone call that makes her a single lady, and responds months later with statements like, "I don’t believe in holding onto someone who doesn’t want to be with you," and "I don't really follow golf anymore."
She finds her ponytail stuck in her racquet and tries to swing away with her heralded backhand anyway:
So it goes. Wozniacki went on to win her match Wednesday against Aliaksandra Sasnovich, 6-3, 6-4, and moves on to a third-round battle Thursday against Andrea Petkovic. The two players famously met in a Miami match in 2011 in which Wozniacki questioned the sound of Petkovic's breathing, telling the chair umpire that it sounded like she was saying "out."
Now it's Wozniacki herself who is in waiting-to-exhale mode. But she's no Anna Chakvetadze yet:
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