In 2013, Simona Halep played eight doubles matches, winning one, in January, against the Liga Dekmeijere/Megan Moulton-Levy (Latvia/USA) pair, in the first round of the Hobart tournament, when the athlete from Constanta teamed up with Irina-Camelia Begu. In the next phase, the Romanians were defeated by Timea Babos/Mandy Minella (Hungary/Luxembourg).
Of the eight matches played last year, Simona Halep paired with the Dutch Arantxa Rus, three times, in Auckland, at the Australian Open and at the French Open, with Begu, only in Hobart, with the American of Georgian origin Anna Tatishvili, at Wimbledon , with the Italian Maria Elena Camerin, in Doha, and with Alexandra Cadantu, at the US Open.
With the rise in the WTA singles hierarchy, Halep gradually gave up the doubles event, so that in 2014, before the tournament in Beijing, she played only two matches, both lost and both contested at the beginning of the year: at the Australian Open , with Alexandra Cadanţu by his side, and in Sydney, also with Olaru.
Halep is currently ranked 1,115th in the WTA doubles rankings.
In the second round, Halep and Olaru will meet the pair of Garbine Muguruza/Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain), seed number 7, who passed, with the score of 6-2, 6-2, after a 58-minute match of Christina McHale/Chanelle Scheepers (USA/South Africa).Â
