Whatever Caroline Wozniacki may accomplish in her tennis career, it’s hard to imagine her doing anything more spectacular than what she did Sunday.

Never having run more than half the distance of a marathon, having just completed her tennis season a week before and having to return all the way from Singapore and dealing with the long flight and the jet lag, the 24-year-old from Denmark ran her first-ever marathon in New York City.
Not only did she finish, she finished in under 3 1/2 hours.
It’s just another example of how champions are just wired differently from you and me. How many people could accomplish? Not too many come to mind.
Here’s a story on that, a pretty good account of the various phases of marathon running.
Wozniacki raised more than $80,000 for Just for Kids, the charity she was running for, apparently including a nice cheque from bestie Serena Williams.
It’s a better option than actually running for Woz’s BFF; Williams said earlier in the summer there was NO way in heck she’d ever run a marathon:
And who could blame her?
The night before, the besties indulged in some solid carbo-loading at the Rangers game. Which is also awesome:
Honorable mention to former ATP Tour player Amer Delic, who also ran his first marathon and finished in under four hours.

Delic, 32, a Bosnian-born American, retired as a player in 2012 having reached a career high of No. 60 in singles.
And the effort is even more impressive given how many issues Delic had with his knees during his career (he missed much of 2010 after left knee surgery).
He’s probably best known to the less-than-diehard tennis fan as the player who is most mistaken for Roger Federer (even though he’s 6-foot-5).
Amélie Mauresmo was registered to run, but did not.
She ran her first New York City Marathon in 2010, after she had retired as an active player and had plenty of time to train, and finished in 3:40:26.
Wozniacki, who has played a full schedule this year and was in the WTA Finals in Singapore to the penultimate day a week before the marathon, losing to Williams in the semifinals in a third-set tiebreaker, beat her time by 14 minutes.
NASDAQ saluted Wozniacki on its Times Square billboard.
Thank you @Nasdaq this is so awesome!! A photo posted by Caroline Wozniacki (@carowozniacki) on