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Wozniacki heads into retirement after Melbourne Park defeat

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Tennis – Australian Open – Third Round – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – January 24, 2020 – Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki wipes her eyes after losing the match against Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur. REUTERS/Edgar Su

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki headed into retirement on Friday after a 7-5 3-6 7-5 third-round defeat at the hands of Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur ended her participation in the Australian Open.

The 29-year-old Dane said last year that Melbourne Park, where she won her lone Grand Slam title two years ago, would be the site of her final outing as a tennis professional.

Jabeur, who beat 12th seed Johanna Konta in the first round and former world number four Caroline Garcia in the second, ushered her out of the door with a barrage of 43 winners on Melbourne Arena.

Wozniacki’s final stroke as a tennis professional was a forehand which went long to send the Tunisian world number 78 into the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.

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