Halep back on the job at Melbourne Park

[ASFN Admin]

Simona Halep has come close to winning the Australian Open on a couple of occasions and although she does not want to dwell too much on what might have been, it does encourage her to believe that she can go deep in the tournament again. Halep, who boasts French Open and Wimbledon titles in her Grand Slam collection, lost the 2018 Australian Open final to Caroline Wozniacki and fell at the penultimate hurdle last year with a semi-final loss to Garbine Muguruza. That pragmatic outlook permeated Halep's news conference and the second seed returned to the theme when asked how, in a sport where consistency is at a premium, she had remained in the world's top 10 for seven years.

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