One Belgian down, one to go.Caroline Wozniacki, the ninth seeded 19 year old from Denmark, continued her dream run through women's field Saturday night at the US Open with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Yanina Wickmayer, earning a date in the championship match tonight with Kim Clijsters.
"I mean I am in the US Open final-I cannot describe it with words, I am so excites," Wozniacki said in the post match interview. "I am so happy, I pulled through today. I am really looking foward to it, it's dream come through to play in the finals of the Grand Slam."
Wozniacki, who is making her first foray beyond Round of 16 at a Grand Slam event, has been able to thrive by patiently waiting for her opponents to make mistakes, while not making any of her own. She had only eight winners against Wickmayer, but also made only 14 unforced errors-Wickmayer made 40 unforced errors including 22 in the second set, to go with 23 winners. It was nearly as identical as Wozniaki's victory against Melanie Oudin in the quarterfinals, where she just waits for Oudin to make error after error by consistently hit the ball back into the play.
The match was played in a bizarre environment for a semi finals of the Grand Slam with only about 500 fans or so in the Louis Armstrong stadium, thanks to the persistent rain that forced the match to be play simultaneously with other semifinals.
"Maybe it was easier, because you didn't feel the pressure too much, may be it did not feel like US Open semifinal," Wozniacki said. "Maybe we didn't feel so close to a Grand Slam final."
Wozniacki's opponent in the finals is Kim Clijsters, former world no 1 who continued her fairytale comeback from two years retirement by beating Serena Williams in a match marred by bizarre ending due to Serena's temper.
Serena was serving during 15-30 and 4-5 down in the second set with a set down when the lineswoman called foot fault on her, causing her to face two match points and also causing her to lost her temper. She berated the lineswoman and pointed her racket and the ball a few times to her. After the argument with chair umpire and tournament umpire, she was penalized for the bad behavior and subsequently lost the match as she was facing the match point at the time.
Clijsters was clearly stunned by all the drama that happen around her. For a moment, its looks like she didn't want to accept the reality that happen. She wanted to win properly, not by umpire's decision. However, she soon realize that a win is a win and she will face Caroline Wozniacki to decide who will hoist the US Open trophy.
My prediction: Clijsters is clearly favorite even though she is unseeded. She is former champion and unbeaten in Flushing Meadows for 13 matches. However Wozniacki is also in winning streak. She is unbeaten in her last 11 matches. It is really tight to between this two. Clijsters is really quick and has a powerful groundsrokes while Wozniacki is also quick but more like a counter puncher. My heart say Caroline will win it but my brain goes to Kim. Experience will prevails in the end.
Serena was serving during 15-30 and 4-5 down in the second set with a set down when the lineswoman called foot fault on her, causing her to face two match points and also causing her to lost her temper. She berated the lineswoman and pointed her racket and the ball a few times to her. After the argument with chair umpire and tournament umpire, she was penalized for the bad behavior and subsequently lost the match as she was facing the match point at the time.
Clijsters was clearly stunned by all the drama that happen around her. For a moment, its looks like she didn't want to accept the reality that happen. She wanted to win properly, not by umpire's decision. However, she soon realize that a win is a win and she will face Caroline Wozniacki to decide who will hoist the US Open trophy.
My prediction: Clijsters is clearly favorite even though she is unseeded. She is former champion and unbeaten in Flushing Meadows for 13 matches. However Wozniacki is also in winning streak. She is unbeaten in her last 11 matches. It is really tight to between this two. Clijsters is really quick and has a powerful groundsrokes while Wozniacki is also quick but more like a counter puncher. My heart say Caroline will win it but my brain goes to Kim. Experience will prevails in the end.
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