- Rory McIlroy reportedly getting close to
Caroline Wozniacki, No. 1 tennis player in the world and they are reportedly dating.
McIlroy 22 years had just broken up with his old girlfriend Holly Sweeney, according to several media 2 people are going out together.
But it did not take long for McIlroy to latch on Wozniacki, 21 years rising star from
Denmark. The couple, who looks a dinner together at a restaurant in London, according to an internet
blog, have made public their friendship because they both have been tweeting back and forth to each other.
For Caroline Wozniacki, the top-seeded woman at the U.S. Open, last night was like deja vu.
After losing the first set to No. 15 Svetlana Kuznetsova in their fourth-round match and trailing 4-1 in the second, she rallied to win, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals, the exact same scenario that unfolded in Flushing two years ago.
In the same round in 2009, Wozniacki lost the first set to Kuznetsova, 6-2, and was down 4-1 in the second before winning, 2-6, 7-6, 7-6. That was fresh in her mind as she made her comeback last night.
"I thought about the match we played two years ago. I was down 4-1 and won that as well," Wozniacki said. "I was basically out of the tournament. Eight points from losing."
COMPLETE US OPEN COVERAGEThe top-ranked Dane became more assertive after falling behind, and it was Kuznetsova who tired down the stretch of the three-hour, two-minute match. The scheduled 7 p.m. match did not get under way until 8:27 -- because of the lengthy final afternoon match on Ashe between Mardy Fish and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga -- and dragged on to 11:29.
"I went out there after two sets, and I still felt fresh," Wozniacki said. "I knew that she took a bit of time after that second set, so I knew she was definitely more tired than me.
"I know I'm in good shape. I can play out there for five hours if I have to."
Wozniacki, 21, won 12 of the final 14 games to head to the quarterfinals for the third straight year. She will play No. 10 Andrea Petkovic.
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No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic survived a marathon first-set tiebreaker and cruised through the next two sets to advance to the quarterfinals by beating Alexandr Dolgopolov, 7-6 (14), 6-4, 6-2. He needed six set points and an hour and 16 minutes, but Djokovic finally won the first set in a 30-point tiebreak, 16-14.
The first set took longer than the second and third sets combined (70 minutes). It was the longest men's tiebreaker of this U.S Open, but shy of the all-time Open record of 38, set in 1993 when Goran Ivanisevic defeated Daniel Nestor.
But it did not take long for McIlroy to latch on Wozniacki, 21 years rising star from Denmark. The couple, who looks a dinner together at a restaurant in London, according to an internet blog, have made public their friendship because they both have been tweeting back and forth to each other.
For Caroline Wozniacki, the top-seeded woman at the U.S. Open, last night was like deja vu.
