Bucking the trend

Somehow Caroline Wozniacki has avoided the Pilot Pen draw pulling jinx.

Dating back to 2002, which ever player has been asked to serve as the WTA representive has exited quickly from the tournament. Tamarine Tanasugarn (2002), Ashley Harkleroad (2003), Alicia Molik (2005) and Patty Schnyder (2006) all lost in the first round while Tatiana Golovin in 2004 and Sania Mirza last year were gone by the end of the second round.

Wozniacki, however, who made history earlier this summer by becoming the first player from Denmark to win a WTA title, prevented this little piece of Pilot Pen history from repeating.

On a side note, all four players who had their photos on the Register's special section have been eliminated. Juan Del Potro pulled out of the men's field while Dominika Cibulkova and Nicole Vaidisova lost in the first round of the women's singles draw. Alize Cornet, who lost to Wozniacki in the semifinals on Friday, was the last of the four talented teenagers to be alive in the tournament.

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