TORONTO — World number five Caroline Wozniacki suffered a second round upset to Swiss Belinda Bencic on Wednesday at the Rogers Cup, then hit back with strong criticism of the WTA.
Wozniacki played despite recovering from a nagging calf injury and fell in a close match to Bencic 7-5 7-5 before indicating she felt pushed to play by the WTA rules.
"The rules, if you're a top-10 player are that this was my commitment tournament, you’re forced to play," Wozniacki told reporters.
"If you don't, you get huge money fines. You get zero points to your ranking .