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 Caroline Wozniacki (born July 11, 1990, Odense) is a Danish tennis player. She achieved her career-high rank of #30 on June 23, 2008. She is the only Danish woman currently in the top 500 on the WTA tour.
Being born to Polish parents, she is trilingual, fluent in Polish as well as Danish and English. She has won several junior tournaments (including the 2005 Orange Bowl tennis championship), and made her debut on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open on July 19, 2005, losing to the top-seeded and later champion Patty Schnyder in the first round.
At the 2008 French Open, she was seeded thirtieth, making this the first Grand Slam in which Wozniacki was seeded. In her first round, she defeated Yvonne Meusburger of Austria 6-0, 6-2. Her second round opponent was Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus. Wozniacki won this game 6-0, 6-4 to once again set up a tie with Ana Ivanovic, as she did in the 2008 Australian Open. Ivanovic went on to knock Wozniacki out of a Grand Slam tournament for the second time this year with a 6-4, 6-1 victory.
As a warm up for the grass season, like the two previous years, Wozniacki played in the exhibition tournament Liverpool International which gains no ranking points. She won the tournament by beating Michelle Larcher de Brito 6-2, 6-0, Tamaryn Hendler 6-2, 6-2, Katarzyna Piter 6-1, 6-1, Tamaryn Hendler (again) 6-3, 6-4 and Ashley Harkleroad (the 2007 winner) 4-6, 6-4, 10-5. When she won in Liverpool in 2006, also by defeating Harkleroad, Wozniacki went on to win the Wimbledon (Girl's) title.
June 18 Wozniacki took her first top 5 scalp, defeating world #4 Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-2 in the second round at the International Women's Open in Eastbourne.
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Ashley Harkleroad (born May 2, 1985), is an American tennis player. Born in Rossville, Georgia, Harkleroad reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 on June 9, 2003. She is currently ranked 60 in singles and 145 in doubles, as well as 54 in the Race to the Sony Ericsson Championships. Her career prize money to date is $878,621
