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Updated at 8:02 a.m., Monday, September 10, 2007

Tennis: New mom Davenport will play singles match

Associated Press

 

Lindsay Davenport earned a straight-set doubles victory at the Bali Open today

AP library photo | August 2007

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NUSA DUA, Indonesia — In a warm-up for her first singles match in nearly a year, Lindsay Davenport earned a straight-set doubles victory at the Bali Open today.

She joined Daniela Hantuchova to defeat Sophie Lefevre and Ipek Senoglu 6-3, 6-1.

Davenport will face fifth-seed Eleni Daniilidou tomorrow for the first singles match of her comeback.

The 31-year-old Davenport played doubles at the Pilot Pen tournament last month after giving birth to her son, Jagger, in June.

"It's not an easy first match," she said. "But it's not really about who I play and winning matches. It's hard to put expectations on myself after everything that's happened in the last year."

Davenport plans to play next week in Beijing, and train for the Australian Open.

In other first-round singles play, Youlia Fedossova blanked Hsieh Su-Wei 6-0, 6-0, and Romanian Edina Gallovits routed Jarmilla Gajdosova 6-1, 6-0.