{"id":233864,"date":"2025-10-30T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:03:13","slug":"caroline-wozniacki-accuses-tennis-pundit-of-bullying-her-for-20-years-after-retirement-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233864\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Wozniacki accuses tennis pundit of bullying her for ’20 years’ after retirement dig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former tennis World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki has accused a TV pundit of bullying after comments made about her retirement.<\/p>\n

Wozniacki announced a shock return<\/a> to tennis in 2023 after initially calling time on her career in the sport four years prior.<\/p>\n

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Wozniacki has accused tennis pundit Peter Bastiansen of bullying her for over 20 yearsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The former Australian Open<\/a> champion went on to reach the fourth round of the US Open<\/a> and the quarter-finals at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n

However, she has now not played a professional game since September 2024, when she was beaten by Beatriz Haddad Maia.<\/p>\n

That inactivity has led to increased talk of another potential retirement for the 35-year-old former women’s World No.1.<\/p>\n

Wozniacki has not made any public statement about her future plans, leaving it up in the air over whether she will return to the court.<\/p>\n

And now tennis pundit and former player Peter Bastiansen has brutally hit out<\/a> at her for her silence on the matter…<\/p>\n

What did Bastiansen say? <\/p>\n

Bastiansen told Danish outlet B.T: “I can’t understand why she doesn’t announce it [retirement]. I mean, what’s the point of not doing so?\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She’s never, ever coming back to top-level tennis. That ship has sailed. Why doesn’t she just say it? <\/p>\n

“There’s nothing wrong or unnatural about that. All great sports stars make such announcements, so I just don’t get it.”<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI\u2019ll fall off my chair if she declares herself ready for the Australian Open in January. It would be a parody if she did. <\/p>\n

“It would simply be deeply unserious. I can\u2019t see why the organisers would even bother to give her a wildcard.”<\/p>\n

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Wozniacki posted her strong comments back at Bastiansen on InstagramCredit: Instagram’Bastiansen has bullied and attacked me’<\/p>\n

Bastiansen’s comments have led to Wozniacki hitting back with a strong-worded social media post on Instagram. <\/p>\n

In her caption on top of a screenshot of the pundit’s quotes, she wrote: “It’s now been more than 20 years that Peter Bastiansen has bullied me and attacked me personally in the media, talking about things he doesn’t understand.<\/p>\n

“Peter, you’re a clown, and as a so-called ‘tennis expert’ you should know the rules. It can be hard to keep track of them when you’ve never played at a high level yourself.<\/p>\n

“But I have a frozen ranking of world No.71, which means I don’t need wildcards to enter the big tournaments. After many years of hard training and top-level tennis, I have the right to do what’s best for my family.<\/p>\n

“I don’t understand why TV 2, B.T., and other media outlets keep using his quotes when there are many far better experts in Denmark.”<\/p>\n

B.T. have asked Bastiansen for comment<\/a> on Wozniacki’s accusation, but the pundit has refused to ‘get into a war of words’.<\/p>\n

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Wozniacki has not played a professional tennis match since September 2024Credit: GettyLife away from tennis <\/p>\n

Wozniacki originally retired from tennis to focus on her family, having two children with husband David Lee over the next three years.<\/p>\n

However, she returned in 2023 and went back to competing, only to then fall pregnant with her third child in late 2024. <\/p>\n

That led to her second break, during which she gave birth to son Max earlier this year.<\/p>\n

With Wozniacki now having three children and mentioning her family in her retort, it’s clear that she is very family-oriented.<\/p>\n

And she has continued to leave the door open for a comeback to top-level tennis in the new year. <\/p>\n

The Australian Open could be where the former champion makes her return and that will get started in January 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former tennis World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki has accused a TV pundit of bullying after comments made about her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[16881,99241,101,118,872,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-233864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-caroline-wozniacki","tag-peter-bastiansen","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}