Azarenka wins first match on return from motherhood

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Eighteen-time Major champion Roger Federer picked up his first win of the grasscourt season by thrashing Japan's Yuichi Sugita 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Gerry Weber Open at Halle.

Azarenka called her coach, Michael Joyce, for an on-court timeout after dropping the second set, and he encouraged her to be more assertive with her shots. I started getting down on myself for making mistakes.

Azarenka broke to level upon resumption of the contest on Wednesday to level at 5-all in set three, but she was quickly broken back by Ozaki in the next game.

Azarenka has not played since the French Open a year ago, when she was already two months pregnant.

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To develop your start-up success in Majorca Victoria Azarenka will try to match with seventh-seeded Ana the Groom, which occupies in the WTA rankings the 28-th position. From there, she reeled off five straight points of her own, and then recovered from a 3-5 deficit in the third-set tiebreaker.

"It's easy to feel good when everything goes your way", Azarenka said.

"I'm still trying to find my range but, mentally, I was there for every point. I know I can play better, definitely, and I will at some point, but I need to work through these matches".

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