Former World No 1 and third seeded Caroline Woznaicki of Denmark takes on Russian Ekaterina Makarova  in the opening round clash of New Haven Open, Yale on Monday

World No.8 Caroline Wozniacki has not had the best year so far with a win-loss record of 28-15. She is still in the hunt for her first title of 2012. With some really bad losses to her lower ranked opponents, Wozniacki has seen a dip in her ranking, which was No.1 when this year started. Her performance at Wimbledon recently was nothing great as she lost in the opening round. But since then she has bounced back strongly as he reached the quarter-finals in Olympics and last week reached the semis of Rogers Cup. Last week at Cincinnati Open, she  lost to Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the pre-quarterfinal clash. 

Her opponent: Makarova shot to fame after her quarter-final stint at this year's Australian Open. With a win-loss record of 23-13, Makarova would want to jump the rankings, that is right now at 41. She serves well, has good ground strokes and would be hoping it all comes to use against Wozniacki.

Both players have met thrice before and Wozniacki has won each of them.