Simona Halep suffers shock first-round defeat at the US Open

10:03am PDT - August 27th, 2018    simona halep - The Guardian (AU)

• French Open champion loses 6-2, 6-4 to Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi • First women’s top seed in Open era to lose in first round Simona Halep’s US Open campaign lasted just an hour and 15 minutes as she became the first women’s top seed in the Open era to lose in t…