The former world number one took out the 83rd-ranked Denisa Allertova in one hour and twenty-five minutes on Court 12. Caroline Wozniacki raced through the first set without much pushback from her Czeck opponent. Allertova played more competitively as the second set progressed, but the Dane still went up a double break. The lower-ranked player then fought back to send the set to a tiebreak, but was not able to further extend the match.
Caroline Wozniacki has never gone beyond the round of sixteen at Wimbledon, despite reaching it four times (2009, 2010, 2011, 2014). Nonetheless, she insists that she is a contender to win the Venus Rosewater Dish and the aproximately 2.9 million dollars US awarded to the Ladies Singles Champion. She certainly played like a contender in the first set of the match. She rattled off five straight games before her oppenent was finally able to hold serve, and closed the set in the next game. She finished with 3 aces and no double faults to no aces and four double faults for Allertova.
The second set was much of the same, with the Czech player sending shot after shot long, and quickly falling behind one game to five, although she was beginning to play better. Around the seventh game of the set, she seemed to gain control of her strokes. She proceeded to win five straight games, breaking her opponent twice in the process. While Allertova rallied, Wozniacki appeared to sit back, waiting for her lower-ranked opponent to make errors, which she had been doing often until that point. The Danish number one managed to hold serve to reach a tiebreaker, where she set up her first match point with a huge second serve. It was the only match point she would need, coming to the net for game, set, match.
The number of unforced errors commited by each player was a major difference in the match, with Allertova committing 27, to her opponent's 9.
Wozniacki was surely glad for the additional challenge that players receive when a set goes to a tiebreaker, because a few games earlier she had lost her finalchallenge of the set, stopping midpoint on an Allertova shot that was in fact in. She was visibly frustrated when, a few points later, she was unable to challenge another shot she believed to be long.
The former world number one will next face Italian Camila Giorgi, the thirty-first seed at the All England Club, a player against whom she has a one win and two losses in her career.