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Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki announces she will retire after 2020 Australian Open

  • December 06, 2019
  • TENNIS

Former universe No. 1 champion Caroline Wozniacki will retire from tennis following a 2020 Australian Open, she announced Friday on Good Morning America and Instagram. 

“I’ve always told myself, when a time comes, that there are things divided from tennis that we wish to do more, afterwards it’s time to be done,” Wozniacki wrote her Instagram post. “In new months, I’ve satisfied that there is a lot some-more in life that I’d like to accomplish off a court.” 

In Oct 2018, a 29-year-old suggested she’d been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. She refused to use a condition as an forgive during a 2019 Australian Open, where she could not urge her 2018 title — a sole vital feat of her career. 

Wozniacki, a local of Denmark who represented her nation during three Olympics, turned pro in 2005 during a age of 15. Five years later, notwithstanding not carrying a vital championship, she rose to a tip ranking in a universe and hold it for 71 weeks. She finished her career with 30 WTA victories. 

“I’ve achieved all we could have dreamed of on a court,” she wrote. 

Wozniacki wrote that she will continue lifting recognition for rheumatoid arthritis and skeleton to start a family with her husband, former NBA actor David Lee.

“This has zero to do with my health and this isn’t a goodbye, we demeanour brazen to pity my sparkling tour forward with all of you!” she wrote. “Finally, we wish to appreciate with all my heart, a fans, my friends, my sponsors, my team, generally my father as my coach, my husband, and my family for decades of support! Without all of we we could have never have finished this!” 

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