Kuala Lumpur: Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki suffered one of her worst career defeats when she bowed out of the Malaysia Open to 186th-ranked Chinese qualifier Qiang Wang yesterday.
The Dane, top seed at the event in Kuala Lumpur, cruised through the opening set of her first round clash and had a match point in the second before going down 2-6, 7-6, 6-1.
Qualifier Wang, 21, allowed Wozniacki only one point in the second set tiebreak as she levelled the match and rolled through the decider to claim her biggest careeer win.
Wang will face Austrian Patricia Mayr-Achleitner next.
“I tried to make her run more to take advantage of her illness and it paid off. This is the best win of my career and it will give me more confidence,” the 21-year-old said about her first victory over a top-10 player. AFP
