- 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 COVERAGE The 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.
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