‘My Parents Wanted Me to Get Out of the House’ – Caroline Wozniacki Reveals Why She Chose Tennis Over Other Sports

2018 Australian Open champion, Caroline Wozniacki said goodbye to tennis in January 2020. In 2022 she will make a comeback to play one last match in her career. On April 5, she will play her final match against 3-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber. Meanwhile, she already played an exhibition match against Kim Clijsters as a preparation for her final match. Before that match, she talked to the 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert about her life as a tennis player. 

Caroline Wozniacki reveals the reason she chose tennis

Recently, WTA released a video on their YouTube channel where legendary American player Chris Evert interviewed Caroline Wozniacki. In that interview, the Danish player talked about the reason she chose tennis as a profession. 

“It all started with I think me having way too much energy as a child. So, my parents wanted me to get out of the house and wanted me to burn off some steam, so they signed me up for any sport possible with gymnastics, tennis, football, swimming, kind of everything that you can imagine… I was pretty decent at most sports but I found tennis the most fun and I think that was the sport I was the best at. So probably the reason why I stuck out with that,” Wozniacki revealed. 

“When I was 10, I had to choose between tennis and swimming, but swimming is, I’m not a morning person and you had to be in the water by 6 am. So, it was an easy choice for me,” the Danish player further said. 

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Notably, Wozniacki stayed the world no.1 for 71 weeks in her career. Also, she ended both 2010 and 2011 in the no.1 position. In 2018, she beat Simona Halep in the Australian Open final to clinch her first and only Grand Slam title.

Wozniacki is ready for her last match on the 5th of April

Earlier, the former world no.1 was supposed to play her last match on 19th February. However, due to covid, she had to cancel the event and postpone it to April 5. She will play against German tennis star Angelique Kerber in the Royal Arena in Copenhagen. Recently she shared a video where she was practicing and in the caption, she wrote, “Ready for my comeback… hope to see you in Royal Arena April 5th!!”

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