Henin-Hardenne and Mauresmo cruise
Henin-Hardenne and Mauresmo cruise
by Scott Spits
Monday, January 19, 2004
Two of the leading women's chances at Australian Open 2004 have enjoyed
comfortable straight-sets wins on Day One at Melbourne Park as two Russian
seeds fell by the wayside.
World No.1 Justine Henin-Hardenne took just 44 minutes to overwhelm
15-year-old Australian qualifier Olivia Lukaszewicz 6-0 6-0 on Rod Laver Arena.
The young Australian was born barely six months after Melbourne Park hosted
its first Grand Slam tournament in January, 1988.
French No.4 seed Amelie Mauresmo had little trouble dispatching Chia-Jung
Chuang, from Chinese Taipei, 6-1 6-0, at Vodafone Arena.
American No.5 seed Lindsay Davenport, the only woman in the draw to have won
the Australia Open, had a regulation 6-2 6-3 win over Romanian Ruxandra
Dragomir Ilie on Show Court Three.
Earlier, the bottom section of the top half of the women's draw opened with
the defeat of Russian seeds Elena Dementieva (No.7) and Nadia Petrova (No.10)
in straight sets.
With Russia having eight of the 32 women's seeds at Melbourne Park, three of
their compatriots - No.11 seed Vera Zvonareva, No.21 seed Elena Bovina and
No.30 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova - safely progressed to the second-round.
Dementieva, 22, who reached the fourth-round at both Wimbledon and the US
Open last year, crashed out to 18-year-old Jelena Jankovic 6-1 6-4 on
Vodafone Arena.
Jankovic, from Serbia and Montenegro and currently ranked No.79, won the
junior title at Melbourne Park in 2001 and reached the second round after
qualifying for last year's main draw, her only previous Grand Slam appearance.
Dementieva, who also lost in the first-round at Australian Open 2003, said
she struggled against Jankovic because she was still feeling the effects of
an illness and a lack of lead-up matches to the opening Grand Slam tournament
of 2004.
Petrova, a semi-finalist at Roland Garros last year, went down to Hungarian
world No.80 Aniko Kapros 6-3 6-3 on Show Court Three.
Other seeds to be eliminated included No.16 Spaniard Magui Serna, who lost to
Italian Mara Santangelo in three sets, No.17 Meghann Shaughnessy, who was
upset by local favourite Nicole Pratt 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the night session, and
No.26 Slovenian Tina Pisnik, who succumbed to Ukranian Yuliana Fedak 7-5 6-0.
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