Caroline Wozniacki is one of the world's highest earning female athletes. She is a former World Number One on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. She has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Caroline Wozniacki is a 24-year old Danish professional tennis player. She started playing at an early age of seven. Caroline was also the first woman from a Scandinavian country to hold the top ranking positions. One of her coaches is her father, Piotr Wozniacki. Her increasing net worth is attributed to her remarkable tennis aptitude and skill.
Caroline Wozniacki's personal life was recently put under the spotlight when shocking news about her broken engagement with golfer Rory McIlroy broke out. However, the rising tennis star seemed to not care about her failed love life. Caroline is concentrating on her fluid relationship with money and fashion.
Caroline Wozniacki is a well-celebrated professional tennis player with a substantial net worth of $20 million. She won several junior tournaments in 2005 including the Orange Bowl tennis championship. In July of the same year, Caroline made her WTA breakthrough. Since then, the quick-footed counter-puncher athlete has been forming an exceptional game marked with her two-handed backhand, which is considered as her best weapon with her proficiency of turning defense into offense.
Aside from her escalating net worth, Caroline Wozniacki remains to prove that she is one of the best tennis players of her generation. Throughout her career, she has improved her ranking each year. She is a former world top ranking on the WTA and the first Dane blonde to hold the 20th overall rank. As of August 2014, Caroline has championed in 22 WTA singles titles, three times in 2008 and 2009, six in 2010 and 2011 and two in 2012. From 2008 to 2011, Caroline had won the most titles in a year by a WTA player. She was also a runner-up at the 2009 US Open and the WTA Tour Championships in Doha to Kim Clijsters in 2010. Even though she won the 2006 Wimbledon Girl's Singles title, Caroline has yet to earn a women's Grand Slam Title successfully. But, she holds two WTA doubles titles.
Meanwhile, Caroline Wozniacki's private life was struck by controversies and rumors lately. She was in a relationship with Northern Irish professional golfer, Rory McIlroy since 2011 but broke up in May 2014. She was set to marry the golfer when she announced their engagement on her social media account Twitter in January first this year. However, Rory ended the engagement in May 21, 2014 saying that the problem was his. He said, "The wedding invitations issued at the weekend made me realize that I wasn't ready for all that marriage entails. I wish Caroline all the happiness she deserves and thank her for the great times we've had."
Her personal life might be on the rubbles but Caroline Wozniacki remained resilient. She resides in Monte Carlo, Monaco and speaks English, Polish and Danish fluently. In 2011, she was ranked as the second highest earning female athlete in the world by Forbes while SportsPro named Caroline the world's ninth most marketable athlete. So, it is undoubtedly that her net worth continues to rise.
With Caroline Wozniacki's fluid relationship with fashion and money plus her increasing net worth, she doesn't concern herself with finances. Caroline barely keeping track of her almost $10 million per year earnings in endorsement deals with companies like Adidas, Compeed, Rolex, Danske Invest, Oriflame, Turkish Airlines, Proactiv, Sony Ericsson, Babolat and e-Boks. In the 2009 US Open, she wore her first "Adidas by Stella McCartney" tennis dress.
Caroline Wozniacki's successful career and grossing net worth prove that she is one of the best players of her generation. Recently, her less concerns on her wealth evidenced when she forgot to pick up her $1.45 million prize money at the US Open 2014 earlier this month. WSJ reported that after falling short of winning her first Grand Slam title once again in her loss to good friend Serena Williams, Caroline accepted her trophy, talked to the press, gathered her belongings and zoomed off in a courtesy car bound for her Manhattan apartment.
Although thirty minutes later, Caroline Wozniacki returned at the tennis center with a look of sheer panic on her face. Caroline blurted, "I forgot to pick up my prize money." Her $1.45 million US Open lapse proved that she's not too concerned about her financial status.
And with her $20 million net worth, Caroline Wozniacki's successful tennis career just keeps on getting better. Despite her $1.45 million lapse and whether she championed a Grand Slam title or not, Caroline remains to be one of the world's finest and esteemed tennis players.
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