Having had her own fair share of knocks in recent months while struggling for form on the tennis court, Caroline Wozniacki sprang to the defence of her golfing boyfriend Rory McIlroy in his time of trouble on Wednesday.
McIlroy, golf’s world number one, told a news conference in Miami earlier in the day that he had been wrong to walk off mid-round at last week’s Honda Classic and admitted his toothache was not bad enough to justify quitting the tournament.
“I think Rory did a really great job at the press conference,” Danish former world number one Wozniacki told reporters while preparing for the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.
“He said what he had to say. He was honest. Now he’s got to go out there this week and hopefully play some good golf.”
McIlroy, who is competing this week in the elite WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral, admitted to reporters that he had erred in withdrawing from last week’s event at PGA National.
“Obviously I’ve had a lot of time to think about it,” the 23-year-old Northern Irishman said. “I realised pretty quickly that it wasn’t the right thing to do.