Australian Open 2018, Caroline Wozniacki vs Simona Halep

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A FIRST grand slam crown and the No. 1 ranking are there for the taking in a match of incredibly high stakes when Simona Halep and Caroline Wozniacki face-off in the 2018 Australian Open women’s singles final on Saturday night. The top-two seeds at this year’s Open are creating history in this epic showdown in the first ever final to involve two players who had to comeback from facing match-points against them this tournament. The match is scheduled to begin from 7.30pm on Rod Laver Arena.
Wozniacki chokes serving for the first set
Caroline Wozniacki’s trademark of choking in big moments returned again when she tried to serve out the first set at 5-3.
Wozniacki was racing towards winning her first set in a grand slam final, but lost her cool down 0-15 when fans at Rod Laver Arena yelled out in between her first and second serves.
She went down 0-40 and was eventually broken.
“Just unusual, Sam, Caroline is getting kind of annoyed the crowd yelling out, not allowing her to serve when she wants to,” Rennae Stubbs told Channel 7 commentator Sam Smith.
“That was unusual at 0-15. When you see players do things like that, that means they’re a little nervous, they are kind of looking for excuses.”

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