Caroline could be unbeatable

She's our girl now.

Caroline Wozniacki.

No Grand Slam titles, but a Family Circle Cup crown puts the Dane Queen in elite company.

And she's not just a backboard. She has developed the ability to hit winners from anywhere on the court. As runner-up Elena Vesnina pointed out, Wozniacki pressures her opponents to go for shots. They can't just push the ball back and leave it sitting up for her.

Wozniacki never gives up on a point. That, along with her consistency and newfound power, sets her apart from the rest of the WTA Tour.

She's a true No. 1 who almost certainly will get better. She has so much upside it's almost unthinkable how good this blonde beauty could become, not that she isn't already a great player.

Her serve, solid by tour standards, has the potential to become a giant weapon. Yes, she can develop a big game. As long as she doesn't sacrifice too much of her consistency, she might be practically unbeatable.

And there's no worry about her movement now since she has her legs so wrapped up that nothing can go wrong. Or, as she corrected herself Saturday, "Or nothing should happen."

As a result, she is everywhere. Her opponents seem to worry so much about where she's going to be that they have trouble keeping the ball in play.

That was Vesnina. She couldn't keep the ball in play long enough or often enough to earn the points needed to win more than five games.

Six-two. Six-three. The final of this Family Circle Cup was closer than that, but Vesnina never really threatened to make a match of it . . . or to force Wozniacki to make some serious decisions about her mid-Sunday afternoon flight to Washington to connect to a flight to Europe for a Monday exhibition match on the French Riviera.

The "Ma and Pa" operation called Wozniacki sails on to even bigger things than the Family Circle Cup. A Grand Slam title could be in her immediate future.

Wozniacki is where she is because of her work ethic, and that of her parents. There she was out on the practice court early in the week, her dad feeding her balls, and her mother collecting the balls. She only won $111,000 this week. And now she's off to the French Riviera.

The highlight reel

--Family Circle Cup clown John McEnroe. He was one funny guy in Saturday night's "Game, Set, Rock."

--Murphy Jensen's "moon serve" from the upper deck in Friday night's "Challenge Murphy" contest prior to the Sania Mirza-Vesnina late-night doubles quarterfinal. It went in. First try.

--Doubles champions Mirza and Vesnina in any of their doubles matches. They're an awesome team with their tremendous groundstrokes.

--The singles re-emergence of Mirza, the girl hometown star Shelby Rogers defeated last August in Vancouver.

--Chrissie and Martina in "Game, Set, Rock." Evert and Navratilova can still play, a big improvement over Monica Seles' performance a year ago.

--Wozniacki's amazing play on the first points both Saturday and Sunday. She came to play.

Reach James Beck at jamesbecktennis@gmail.com. See his columns on pro tennis at ubitennis.com/english.