Rory McIlroy is adjusting well to single life. The same can’t be said of his former fiancée, tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
On Sunday, days after calling off his engagement to Wozniacki with the wedding invitations still in the mail, Mcllroy won his first event since the split, taking home the European Tour’s prestigious BMW PGA Championship.
Then on Tuesday, Wozniacki crashed out of the opening round of the French Open. The 13th-seeded Wozniacki lost 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2 to 64th-ranked Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, the former world No. 1’s first ouster in the first round at Roland Garros since 2007.
“I don’t really want to talk about my personal life. I hope that you all can understand that,” she said, with her hand on her chest. “The only thing I really have to say is that, you know, thank everybody for their support and sweet messages.
“What happens in my personal life, I just want to really keep that between my closest people around me. You know, I just have to move on.”
McIlroy announced the breakup of the three-year relationship in an emotional press conference last week. A source explained McIlroy’s rationale to Page Six’s Emily Smith: “Rory’s game hasn’t been as consistently good in the time he’s been with Caroline. He was a young guy in love and was flying around the world to see her play in tournaments or meet up with her. He was missing practice rounds. It was a distraction.”
Those distractions appeared absent as McIlroy made up a seven-stroke deficit on the final day of the tournament in Wentworth, England.
“There are definitely mixed emotions and, given all that’s gone on and starting seven shots behind, I’m sitting here with the trophy wondering how the hell it’s happened,” McIlroy told the Daily Mail. “Somebody asked me how I feel, and the truth is I don’t exactly know. I mean, I’m thrilled I’ve won obviously, but it’s been a weird week.”
