MELBOURNE (Ekstra Bladet): You have been able to notice it on the entire Team Wozniacki recent days. Enough sitting feelings a little bit outside of the clothes, like the nerves to play with. But there has at least been plenty of smiles to trace, and especially when, after caroline's first important victory in Melbourne.
Not least David Lee has been the entire register through. As a husband, he is closest to, and he is more than keen on her afskedsturnering must be a beautiful start to the couple's new, shared life.
- I did not think I would be quite nervous about. But when she had to warm up to his first fight, I came to think that it could be her last battle. That struck me just a little, he admits.
- It is really a special time, but I am really proud of how she handles it, and that she has the game as well. I hope we have a few good weeks ahead of us, says David Lee, who obviously have sensed caroline's nervousness.
- She is, after all, a man like any other. If she had extra feelings with her, so she would not be it, he says.
- There are extra nerves, but there is also a joy to come to this. For while she is excited to embark on a new chapter in her life, so she is also very keen to play so strongly, she possibly can in this tournament.
Also, David Lee was labeled before and during caroline's first fight. Here he looks anxiously from the box along with his in-laws. Photo: Edgar Su/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
After the last ball he and Caroline good-a-half years after their wedding to find their new, common ground.
- We are pretty much up in arms about it having to raise a family and find a base, where she not every day must be told by others that she has to be somewhere on one or another point of time.
- Have you a small fear that such an active and hard working woman with so large a konkurrencegen will be restless, when she is stopped?
- We shown both that she is not the type who will lay himself on the couch, smiling, the 36-year-old american.
- She will be very motivated to get the best out of life and do something she really is passionate about.
- She will have a family, and it will fill much for us, but she is the type who needs to find something, who professionally motivates her to get out of bed each day and also use the head on.
- It will be important to her, but most importantly, so will she be able to choose for themselves. She will never allow itself to be blackmailed for something. I am sure that there will be plenty of offers her way.
- from the Outside it may look like a bit of a challenge to raise a family and be so assertive at the same time?
- We are as excited about how we can find the balance between being active and at the same time, beat us down and create a family. But both things will definitely be implemented. We must both do something we love to do.
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David Lee has really lived with during caroline's matches. Here celebrating he victory during Wimbledon. Photo: Frank Molter/press/REX
Will miss to see her in battleWith its 206 centimeters match David Lee plenty of the highest of herrespillerne in the players lounge, and gradually he has also been a part of the travelling tennisfamilie. An experience, which he doesn't say goodbye without sadness.
- It has been amazing year. In particular, it is to be able to support my wife and be a part of her last years in his career has been great. She was also a part of towards the end of my NBA career, and supported me when I stopped. It is very important for me to be there for her, he says.
- I have come to know a part of the trip. Both the other players, some of herrespillerne and the players ' boyfriends and men. It is a big family, who are on the go all the time around the world.
- It is a really good group of people who have been nice to meet. And for me it has been especially good to experience the respect that is around Caroline.
- It will especially for her to be an upheaval not to be a part of the group of people, while for me still is the people I've come to know recently.
- We will still see Serena and the others from the sport, but we will look more to our own family and circle of friends.
Serena Williams is one of them, as David and Caroline will still see, when she leaves the sport. Photo: Wilfredo Lee/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
- What will you miss most from the trip?
- I will miss seeing her compete. She really enjoy to fight and challenge, and it has been great for me to experience this sport from the inside.
- you Will on just the background exclude, that she later makes a comeback?
I have always said to her that the type of decisions totally up to her though. The last thing I wanted to do was to mix me in it. It is her life.
- But no matter what she chooses to do – whether it be in tennis or not – so I want to be a part of it and support her. It is well, a marriage is all about.
- If she would play 15 more years, until she no longer could go, then I would support her.
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David Lee shared caroline's greatest moment in his career, as the two years ago be able to celebrate the Australian Open. Photo: Fiona Hamilton/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
goodbye, I hope- I know that they will do something for Caroline after the last ball, but I don't know what it will be, said David Lee with the address to turneringsarrangørerne and the WTA's celebration of the She final karriereafslutning.
- But what do you hope the goodbye will reflect? That she is being recognized as a player and as a person?
- I hope it will not only reflect what she is for a player, but also the type of person she has been for so many years on the tour. The last, I think, will mean the most to her. Her career speaks for itself.
caroline's legacy in tennis must be that she was a great warrior and a person who always went on the pitch with a smile and a lot of positivity. She fought as hard as any other in the industry. The legacy will live on, no matter what she must do in the future. I am really proud of everything she has achieved.
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