Mother’s Day Showdown: Wozniacki vs. Kerber, A Classic Duel in Indian Wells

Indian Wells will experience this Tuesday one of the great classics of the last three decades of women’s tennis: Caroline Wozniacki contra Angelique Kerber. The Dane and the German, after becoming mothers, have returned to the circuit wanting to make the most of their careers.

On Mother’s Day there will be a duel between Kerber and Wozniacki that has 15 precedents: the first dominates by eight victories to seven. “We’ve known each other since I was seven and she wasn’t. Remembering it makes me feel older,” says Caroline, 34. The two fulfilled their dreams with the racket: they were number one and won ‘Grand Slam’.

We’ve known each other since I was seven and she was nine.

Caroline Wozniacki

To find the first time they saw each other on the professional circuit We have to go back to the Stockholm tournament in 2008. That repeated duel also had its first chapter in Indian Wells, in the semifinals of the 2013 edition. There Wozniacki won, 2-6, 6-4 and 7-5.

The mothers’ revolution

The ‘boom’ of mothers in the WTA had its highest point in the last Australian Open. In the women’s singles draw there were up to eight. In addition to Kerber and Wozniacki, who trained together before the competition, there were Naomi Osaka, Victoria Azarenka, Elena Svitolina, Tatiana Maria, Yanina Wickmayer and Taylor Townsend.

2024-03-11 16:06:39
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