NEW YORK (Ekstra Bladet): While many guess, to Caroline She rheumatic disease will lead to an early retirement, is just her chronic rheumatoid arthritis has been a new motivation to continue fighting for titles on the tennis court.
It confirms she eagerly nodding at Ekstra direct questions.
– certainly It is, ” she says, and explains – not without pride in his voice – that she has surprised the medical experts in the field still to play at the highest level in more a year after the onset of the outbreak.
– My doctor (a rheumatologist in New York, red.) think it is really cool, this is the first time they have seen a person with rheumatoid arthritis to play at such a high level. They think it is great to have someone like me as testkanin. They are looking closely at what works for me.
the Disease can show up anytime but in the past she has been inside a good period of time, which she has not done anything different or has received other medication than the well-known.
Many young giftpatienter tells Caroline that she is a role model for them. Photo: Roger Parks
And while she gradually gathers experience in living with the disease, I am she that she on the front has got a brand new følgerskare in the speech, namely other young people in the same, difficult situation.
– I get really, really many inquiries, and it is a new and very interesting form of communication for me, says Caroline Wozniacki, who, after Wimbledon last year, suddenly got it bad and sought out experts.
When she came to the US Open last year, she had received the shocking diagnosis. But she kept it for herself, until she in October had played his last game at the sæsonfinalen in Singapore.
In the meantime, she won the Premier tournament in Beijing, which ranks in the layer just below the grand slams.
– I had not even heard much about the disease and not at all on the part of young people in good shape like myself. I have always thought that it was older people who had arthritis.
– Now it is especially young people with rheumatoid arthritis, it comes to me and tells what works and what does not work for them.
– for example, They can say or write to me: ’I can’t get out of bed in the morning, when I’m hit hard, but when I see you do your thing, then motivates me’.
– It is nice if I am on the way can be a role model for young people with the disease.
– Is it something new, that drives you – that you are eager to show the world that you can win a big title, despite your illness?
I have already done with the China Open. But it could be cool to win a grand slam here, haha.
– But yes, it is definitely a motivator for me, ” she says emphatically.
Caroline dream of as a role model to win the big titles. Here she is with the latest of its kind in Beijing last year. Photo: AP
Caroline Wozniacki, who, after a harmless and sygdomsplaget season has not won a tournament since the one in Beijing, is in possession of an impressive record. She has won at least one WTA tournament each year since the first in Stockholm in 2008.
She is in the fall enrolled in the tournaments in Wuhan and Beijing, but she has no plans to add more to his program to try to extend the record from ten to eleven years.
– No. It is a bold record, but it’s not going to affect my turneringsplanlægning, says Caroline Wozniacki, who play the first round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday night, English time.’
Caroline Wozniacki in the US Open
in 2018, ranked 2: 2. round (Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine)
in 2017, ranked 5: 2. round (Ekaterina Makarova, Russia)
2016, ranked 74: semi-final (Angelique Kerber, Germany)
2015, ranked 4: 2. Round (Petra Cetkovska, Czech republic)
2014, ranked 10: the Final (Serena Williams, UNITED states)
2013, ranked 6: 3. Round (Camila Giorgi, Italy)
2012, ranked 8: 1. Round (Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania)
2011, ranked 1: semi-final (Serena Williams, UNITED states)
2010, ranked 1: semi-final (Vera Zvonareva, Russia)
2009, ranked 9: the Final (Kim Clijsters, Belgium)
2008, ranked 21: 4. round, Jelena Jankovic (Serbia)
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