Romanian tennis player Simona Halep qualified on Monday for the second round of the Wimbledon tournament, the 3rd Grand Slam of the year, after defeating Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich, with a score of 6-4, 7-5.
Halep (aged 27), WTA's 7th, managed to win after one hour and 41 minutes.
Halep secured a cheque worth 72,000 GBP and 70 WTA points, and in the second round she is to face off Mihaela Buzarnescu or American Jessica Pegula.