By Chris Oddo | Tuesday June 28, 2016

 

Caroline Wozniacki has not won a match at a major all season, but she believes that hard work will pull her out of the funk.

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Caroline Wozniacki has yet to win a match at a major this year and will likely drop out of the Top 50 for the first time since 2008 after a disappointing loss to Svetlana Kuznetsova at Wimbledon on Day 2. Not the easiest draw for the Great Dane to be sure, but when one is unseeded heading into a major, these things do happen.

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It hasn’t been a catastrophic season for Wozniacki, but it has been close. For a former world No.1 that has two Grand Slam finals to her name, coming out of Wimbledon with an 0-2 record at the Grand Slam level on the season can’t be very inspiring.

“It kind of just sucks right now to be out of the tournament. Yeah, there's not really much else to say, I think,” she said on Tuesday. “It's always tough. It's been a tough year in general. It's been some injuries, it's been some bad draws. Yeah, it's been uphill.”

She added: “But, you know, you just have to keep fighting, keep going at it, keep working hard, and hope eventually that's going to turn and you're going to take the chances you're going to get.”

Wozniacki was asked if she had considered seeing a sports psychologist, but she said she didn’t feel that was necessary.

Instead, the former No. 1 believes that old-fashioned work and patience is all she needs to get her results back up to snuff again. Injuries have played a significant part in her slide, and finding an elite fitness level on the hard courts could be the recipe for a much-needed turnaround.

She hopes that things turn, and believes they simply have to at some point--she's simply too talented for them not to.

“I mean, at one point you're just like, ‘You know what, it has to turn, it has to go the other way eventually,’” she said. “I'm just going to take the punches I'm getting and just try and learn from it and try and move forward."

Wozniacki said she can’t expect easy draws any more with her ranking so low, but in truth she hasn’t even faced anybody inside the Top 10 this year. She’s gone 1-2 against the Top 20 and 9-6 against the Top 10.

“I mean, by now I can't expect an easy draw,” she said. “It's not like last year when you're 5 in the world and expecting some easy couple of rounds or easier couple of rounds. Now I know that most likely I'm going to face a tough opponent from the start. I just need to be ready and improve my game even more so that I can beat the top players in the earlier rounds, then it can kind of open up from there.”