'I think I deserve five stars': Caroline Wozniacki recounts excellent Charleston adventure with Daria Kasatkina
Wozniacki's offer to drive Kasatkina from the airport to the official player hotel quickly got complicated over the weekend.
No good deed goes unpunished? Caroline Wozniacki's seemingly simple offer to give Daria Kasatkina a lift from the airport to the official player hotel for the Credit One Charleston Open got a little complicated over the weekend.
Fans first got a glimpse into "Driving Miss Dasha" on social media on Saturday, with the Russian decrying, "Our driver got lost," in an Instagram story alongsider a laughing-while-crying emoji. Wozniacki could be seen in the snap sitting in the driver's seat, leading fans to wonder just how the two ended up together not only in the same car, but with the former world No. 1 at the wheel.
A good-natured Wozniacki reposted the story with a retort: "I think I deserve five stars for getting you to the hotel safely, and a sightseeing tour." And on Monday, the Dane dished on the true story behind her day as a chauffeur after beating American McCartney Kessler 6-0, 6-1 in her return to the tournament, which she won in 2011, her first clay-court match in five years. (Watch in the video above.)
"She complains because I made one slight wrong turn," Wozniacki joked to Steve Weissman on Tennis Channel, "and we had to drive around the block once ... maybe twice."
Wozniacki ultimately put the bulk of the blame for the gaffe on user error, with some on the car's GPS.
"Charleston Place, the hotel, is very iconic, everyone knows where it is, and I thought I knew where it was too," she said.
"I put Charleston Place in the navigation, but apparently, you have to write, 'The Charleston Place.' So that's where I went wrong. Apparently, there's another Charleston Place, but that's apartments, so do not go to Charleston Place!"
But outside of her sense of direction, green clay has always served Wozniacki well over the years: She won the now-defunct Amelia Island tournament twice and was a runner-up in Charleston on two other occasions. In the Lowcountry this week without her husband, David Lee, or children Olivia and James—a first, she says—the Dane next awaits a rematch with Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina, who beat her last week at the Miami Open in the second round after saving match points.
"It's different. It was really nice for a couple of days, being nice to sleep in ... but now I miss them. It's definitely a little strange, but it brings me back to the old times. Since I'm not with the kids, I better be winning!" she quipped.