Simona Halep vs Marina Erakovic – US Open 2015 Day 2 Round 1: The world number two ranking tennis star, Simona will face Marina in the first round on the second day of the Grand Slam tournament.
It is likely to have become a trend for her to lose in the opening rounds of Grand Slams. Well, she needs to play it safely on Tuesday to continue her journey in it.
Her performances and results at Grand Slams have fallen off to a significant lower level that after ranking second in French Open 2014 and getting into semifinals of the Wimbledon, she lost the game against #121 Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the 2014 US Open.
Simona Halep vs Marina Erakovic Live Stream
Halep has played well as per her world position winning four titles and then becoming world number two by reaching. However, she hasn’t played like winning any Grand Slams. In January 2015, though she reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open but it was very low performance against Ekaterina Makarova and then lost against Lucic-Baroni again in French Open round two and Jana Cepelova in Wimbledon first round.
Halep is going to face her very first opponent and she is world number 99 New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic, a fine player struggled from injuries during her entire career. She was once ranked #39 back in 2012. Her best performance was in Pattaya City in which she faced Daniela Hantuchova, and when she reached to the Indian Wells second round at Auckland. However, she failed to impress with her perfomance and doesn’t qualified for Cincinnati and New Heven.
In her entire career, Erakovic has been successful in winning only one US Open main draw match out of seven. However, it was a worthy win as she defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova a year ago. On a serious note, she is a good and dangerous player to watch out for as her strokes can cause damage to any opponent.
It would be a great match to see both the potentially very good players of Tennis.
The match Simona Halep vs Marina Erakovic live stream is scheduled to kick off at 4 pm BST / 11 am local on Tuesday. The UK fans will be able to catch the live updates on Sky Sports / Sky Sports 3 HD, (and online here), and can bet on bet365.