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Chelsey Gullickson,US Open 2010:20 year old man, seeded first here because of lack of Serena Williams for a leg injury, arrived at the U.S. Open in top form, winning in Montreal and New Haven in the space of 6 days last week.

Wozniacki save break point in game one, and he was the first of the six points she won in a row on the road in front of a violation Gullickson, sets the tone for the first set which began shortly before midnight in New York.
A long forehand from the American gave Wozniacki second break in the sixth game and allowed the Dane to serve for the first set, and she wrapped the first set with the match just 30 minutes ago. Gullikson was Gutsy, but too many unforced errors ultimately cost her dearly, as the second set after pictures in the first place.

Wozniacki will be drawn to go one better here than she did last year when she lost to Kim Clijsters in the final.

Much earlier in the day, fourth seed Jelena Jankovic admitted that she used a lucky escape after scraping past Halep Simon won 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, but only after 96 of the world Halep served in the match at 5 – 4 in the decision-making.

“First round matches are never easy, and today it was very difficult. That was not my best game, so I had to work hard to get,” said Jankovic. “It was hard, I was fortunate to get to the end and one more chance.”

Jankovic will face Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic in the second round, 1999 Wimbledon semi-final which disappeared from the tour for several years because of personal and financial problems.

Lucic, who beat Australia’s Alicia Molik 7-6, 6-1, turned professional in April 1997 at the age of 15 and promptly won his first tournament, and still only 15 when she won the Australian Open doubles in 1998 with Martina Hingis.

“I do not want to go into the reasons for everything, it was just miserable, why I have not played,” said Lucic. “It was not because I was sick of tennis or something like that. It was just a lot of adversity.

“My dream has never died and did not go. I’m just waiting for opportunities. I have and I’m living my dream of the past few years. Every match I win now like winning the whole tournament.

“I was really lucky and blessed to be so good when I was still a child. I grew up on a victory, since I was six years old, and it’s always been normal. But as we have just taken over the years is incredible, and every match gives me such satisfaction.

“It’s almost like walking blind for many years and really struggling a lot, finally free again, and remind ourselves of the old ways, and how well I play, I can play with those girls and beat them.

Former champion Maria Sharapova recovered from losing the first set to beat Australia’s Jarmila Groth 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the match, which ran in the evening session.

“I knew that tough opponent in the first round, she plays really good tennis,” Sharapova said relieved. “She got the fire and did not give me many opportunities and I just hung there and fought and those matches you want to go.”

Elsewhere, former world champion Svetlana Kuznetsova needed three sets to beat Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm, 11 seeds of eventual victory 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.

Nevertheless, only 4:45 pm local time on the second day during the first woman to lose the seeds, China Li Na in three sets down to Katerina Bondarenko.

Li, who arrived in Australian Open semifinal this year and was seeded eighth here, won the first set 6-2, but the Ukrainian Bondarenko won the next two 6-4, 6-2.