Former World No 1 digs deep to recover from first-set deficit to clinch 6-4, 6-4 win over Kuznetsova
New York: Caroline Wozniacki's sunny smile has never masked her deep determination, and the Dane has needed all of her grit to turn around the toughest season of her career.
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Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark celebrates her second-round win over Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia during the US Open at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday. Pic/Getty Images
She'll be hoping that a 6-4, 6-4 upset of 2004 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second round of the US Open on Wednesday is a turning point in a 2016 campaign marred by injury and a precipitous drop in ranking.
Wozniacki, a former World No 1, was two breaks down at 0-4 in the first set but won 12 of the next 16 games to advance.
"At one point, I was thinking we've being playing for 30 minutes. Right now, it's 4-0 for her, this is not looking good for me. I just kept fighting for every point." The match could be a metaphor for her a 2016 season in which she missed three months nursing a right ankle injury.
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Until arriving at Flushing Meadows she'd endured nothing but disappointment in the year's Grand Slams, falling in the first round in Australia and at Wimbledon and missing Roland Garros.
In characteristically optimistic fashion, Wozniacki said her enforced time off had an upside.
'Life goes on'
"When you're home for a big amount of time you realise that life goes on and you kind of get a rhythm at home," she said. "I was actually enjoying my time, making the most of the time that I had.
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