MELBOURNE, Australia — Former world number one Simona
Halep won her first match since November when she downed Australia's
Destanee Aiava in the first round of the Melbourne Summer Set tournament on Wednesday.
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Halep, who is now ranked 30th in the world, had no trouble
against the big hitting Aiava, winning 6-4, 6-2 to set up a second round clash
against fellow Romanian
Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
With most of the top women playing in Adelaide this week,
Halep and top seed
Naomi Osaka are the main drawcards at the Melbourne
tournament, being played at Melbourne Park, the home of the
Australian Open.
Osaka booked her second round place with a win over Alize
Cornet on Tuesday and the two are favored to meet in this week's final.
In other matches Wednesday, third seeded Russian Veronika
Kudermetova beat
Viktoria Kuzmova of the Slovak Republic 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (8/6)
and sixth seed Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland was too strong for American
Lauren Davis 7-5, 6-2.
Russian veteran Vera Zvonareva, 37, a former world number
two, turned back time to oust ninth seeded American Alison Riske 7-5, 6-3.
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