But inexperience, increasingly heavy legs and lungs, and Wozniacki’s unerring consistency ... Grand Slam champion Martina Hingis, who played tennis as if it were a physical game of chess ...

Wozniacki needed two medical time-outs to treat her cramping left thigh in the third set and collapsed to the court sobbing and clutching both legs after netting a forehand at 30-15 in the last game.

Wozniacki secured a 7-6 (7/2) 3-6 6-4 triumph to claim her first grand slam title in her 43rd attempt. A teenage prodigy, Wozniacki’s career had been a story of perseverance, with only three ...