Justine Henin's return from retirement started off with success as she defeated the No. 2 seed, Nadia Petrova 7-5 7-5, in the first round of Brisbane. It was a high quality match throughout. Although I hate to say it, as I don't like Justine at all, she seems to be playing just as she did when she was No. 1.
The one thing she needs the most work on is her first serve percentage because it was rather low the entire match, but with saying that, she was only broken once in the match. Henin's next test will be against qualifier Sesil Karatancheva who defeated the Aussie hope, Cassey Dellacqua 6-2 0-6 7-6(1).
Petrova played great tennis, but she got a bit unlucky drawing Henin in the first round. Hopefully Petrova can gain confidence from that match at the Australian open in two weeks.
Before Henin's comeback match, the No. 3 seed, Ana Ivanovic, defeated Aussie, Jelena Dokic, 7-5 1-6 6-3. Although it was ugly tennis, Ivanovic scraped through. Dokic played like a top 10 player again in the second set as she was finding lines throughout the set, but wasn't able to keep that going in the third. Ivanovic's ball toss was still all over the place, but ironically her serve was what helped her win the match the most. Next up for Ivanovic is the big smiling Timea Bascinsky who defeated Alla Kudryavtseva 6-4 7-6(3).
Other winners include No. 4 seed, Daniela Hantuchova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who defeated the No. 5 seed, Alisa Kleybanova, No. 6 seed, Aleksandra Wozniak, Lucie Safarova, Agnes Szavay and Roberta Vinci.
Tonight, Kim Clijsters will take on another comeback player, Alicia Molik. Ivanovic is also in action.
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