Poor Bastard Of The Moment: Caroline Wozniacki

Wozniacki the tennis player and golfer Rory McIlroy was once destined to be the power couple in sports, or at least the Beyonce and Jay-Z.  So young, so cute together, yet willing to commit to each other for the rest of their lives.  And they weren't bad in their careers.

But then, apparently, McIlroy dumped Wozniacki over the phone earlier this year in a call that lasted only three minutes.  And ever since?  McIlroy has won the last three tournaments he's entered, including the British Open and, last week, the PGA Championship, both of which gives him the third and fourth majors of his career (he's only 25) and, even if only an instant by fans quick to give their hot takes based on a sample size as small as three weeks, makes him the heir apparent to Tiger Woods -- and, in fact, because Woods missed the cut at the PGA, the heir apparent to probably The Best Golfer Ever In The History Of The Universe, Jack Nicklaus.

Meanwhile, even though it's not as if Wozniacki has been winless in 2014 -- she's 15-3 since June's French Open -- she has won a tournament which is not a major.  She is not even close to being the #1 women's tennis player in the world -- that belongs to Serena Williams, who has been on top for the past, oh, 15 years.  And no one is comparing her to Martina Navratilova.

Now, he can't be playing like this because of the breakup, can he?  Well, according to some people in the media (even though I think it's kind of a stretch), McIlroy, in his post-tournament press conference, said, basically, yes:

"What else do I have to do?  I get up in the morning, I go to the golf course, I go to the gym. ...  It obviously works pretty well, so I'm going to keep doing it. ...  Just seems like over the past couple of months, I've really just buried myself in my golf game and it seems to be working."

Well, I don't think he's a bachelor.  It looks like McIlroy has found a new piece in Irish model/actress/singer (these triple threats are a dime a dozen these days; maybe they're just diversifying in an increasingly tough economy) Nadia Forde.  And she's a hot piece of Irish (l)ass, with many people on the Internet thinking McIlroy has traded up.  But the fact is -- and it's a fact -- Wozniacki ain't that bad-looking herself.  In fact, she's quite sexy, and I don't think anybody else thinking objectively can say otherwise.

But she's single, and she's not being called The Next Big Thing, while the asshole man who dumped her just because seems to have done a whole lot better since.  He has been rewarded, while she has had to suffer the consequences.

I know this is a woman, but ... Poor Bastard.