A sparse crowd turned out to see the five-time grand slam winner begin her second tournament after completing a 15-month suspension for testing positive
for banned substance meldonium and the Russian was made to work for the win by
world No. 20 Lucic-Baroni, who took the first set.
Sharapova, winner of the tournament in 2014 and a semifinalist last week in the Stuttgart Grand Prix, regained composure to take the second before blitzing
the tired Lucic-Baroni in the third without dropping a game.
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get the opening-round victory.
“The first match of a tournament is always one of the most difficult and it’s been a while since I played on this court,” she said. “I was just so happy to be
back out here, to have the opportunity to play against a really tough opponent
and come out and be a winner in three sets.”
Sharapova will meet Bouchard, ranked 60, today in an eagerly anticipated game due to the Canadian’s fierce criticism of the WTA’s decision to allow the
Russian to return to competitive tennis.
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youngsters in letting her back into the sport.
World No. 2 Angelique Kerber eased into round two with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Hungary’s Timea Babos.
The German is the top seed with world No. 1 Serena Williams absent because the 23-time grand slam champion is expecting her first child.
Sharapova’s conqueror in Stuttgart, Kristina Mladenovic — another fierce critic of the Russian — is also safely through when Ana Konjuh retired after
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BOGOTA, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The municipality of Mesetas in the department of Meta saw the final act on Tuesday of the disarmament of the Revolutionary Armed
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WELLINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government on Tuesday announced new curbs on the number of immigrants to the country, following a
long-running debate over the effect of migration on the economy.
Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse said the changes to the New Zealand Residence Programme (NZRP) for the next two years were part of a regular review
of the numbers, but opposition lawmakers said the government was running scared
of public opinion polls.
The changes included temporarily closing the parent category to new applications-a measure that will directly affect a huge number of Chinese
parents wanting to live with their migrant offspring.
However, Woodhouse's statement did not detail how temporary the closure would be.
Overall the number of residence approvals for the next two years would be cut from 90,000-100,000 down to 85,000-95,000.
The government was also raising the requirements for skilled migrants and cutting the number of places for capped family categories from 5,500 to 2,000.
"Migrants make a valuable contribution to New Zealand both culturally and economically, and the government periodically reviews all our immigration
settings to make sure they are working as intended," Woodhouse said.
"Today's announcement demonstrates the government is taking a responsible, pragmatic approach to managing immigration."
While, economic forecasters including the Reserve Bank of New Zealand have credited migration with bolstering the country's healthy economic growth, others
have questioned whether the infrastructure is coping with record numbers of
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