CAREER SNAPSHOT OF NEWLY CROWNED AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPION CAROLINE WOZNIACKI:
Age: 27. Height: 177cm
Born: Odense, Denmark
Lives: Monte Carlo, Monaco
* Ranking: 1
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money: $37.6 million
Career titles: 28
Career win-loss record: 543-223
Hardcourt career win-loss record: 397-151
2018 win-loss record: 11-1
Grand slam titles: One (Australian Open 2018)
Grand slam win-loss record: 107-42
Australian Open win-loss record: 32-10
Best Australian Open result: champion 2018
Previous best grand slam results: US Open runner-up 2009, 2014
Coach: Piotr Wozniacki
Road to the title:
1st rd: bt Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROM) 6-2 6-3
2nd rd: bt Jana Fett (CRO) 3-6 6-2 7-5
3rd rd: bt 30-Kiki Bertens (NED) 6-4 6-3
4th rd: bt 19-Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 6-3 6-0
QF: bt Carla Suarez-Navarro (ESP) 6-0 6-7 6-2
SF: bt Elise Mertens (BEL) 6-3 7-6
F: bt 1-Simona Halep (ROU) 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 6-4
* Will climb to No.1 when WTA rankings are updated on Monday.
