<p>Second seed Simona Halep survived a scare at the US Open by overtaking American wild card Danielle Collins 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-2 in Monday's opening center court match.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The French Open finalist moves on to face Slovakian Jana Cepelova, a 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 winner over Spain's Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor, in the second round of the season's last grand slam.<br /><br />But the 22-year-old Romanian had a tricky time getting by Collins, a US college champion from the University of Virginia.<br /><br />Down a break at 3-4, the 20-year-old American brought the set back on serve at 4-all and with her confidence growing the collegian ran away with the decider by taking advantage of a slew of errors from Halep.<br /><br />That shock seemed to snap the Romanian back to attention, and bring her groundstrokes under control as she roared to victory over Collins, who was playing her first tour-level main draw match.<br /><br />"She played a tough match, I want to congratulate her," world number two Halep said in an on-court interview. "First set I was a little bit nervous. This court is huge. It's my best ranking ever and best moment of my life. I have to enjoy it, but it's not easy. Everybody is telling me I have chances to win this title."<br /><br />Results (first round, prefix denotes seedings): Men’s singles: Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 6-3, 6-1, 6-4; 23-Leonardo Mayer (Arg) bt Albert Montanes (Spa) 6-2 3-0(Montanes retired). Women’s singles: 2-Simona Halep (Rom) bt Danielle Collins (USA) 6-7, 6-1, 6-2; 6-Angelique Kerber (Ger) bt Ksenia Pervak (Rus) 6-2, 3-6, 7-5; 4-Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) bt Sharon Fichman (Can) 6-1, 6-0; Zheng Saisai (Chi) bt Stefanie Voegele (Swi) 1-6, 6-2, 6-2; Belinda Bencic (Swi) bt Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) 6-3, 6-2; 31-Kurumi Nara (Jap) bt Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) 6-2, 6-1. 18-Andrea Petkovic (Ger) bt Ons Jabeur (Tun) 7-6(7), 1-6, 6-3; 14-Lucie Safarova (Cze) bt Timea Babos (Hun) 6-4, 7-5. </p>
<p>Second seed Simona Halep survived a scare at the US Open by overtaking American wild card Danielle Collins 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-2 in Monday's opening center court match.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The French Open finalist moves on to face Slovakian Jana Cepelova, a 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 winner over Spain's Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor, in the second round of the season's last grand slam.<br /><br />But the 22-year-old Romanian had a tricky time getting by Collins, a US college champion from the University of Virginia.<br /><br />Down a break at 3-4, the 20-year-old American brought the set back on serve at 4-all and with her confidence growing the collegian ran away with the decider by taking advantage of a slew of errors from Halep.<br /><br />That shock seemed to snap the Romanian back to attention, and bring her groundstrokes under control as she roared to victory over Collins, who was playing her first tour-level main draw match.<br /><br />"She played a tough match, I want to congratulate her," world number two Halep said in an on-court interview. "First set I was a little bit nervous. This court is huge. It's my best ranking ever and best moment of my life. I have to enjoy it, but it's not easy. Everybody is telling me I have chances to win this title."<br /><br />Results (first round, prefix denotes seedings): Men’s singles: Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 6-3, 6-1, 6-4; 23-Leonardo Mayer (Arg) bt Albert Montanes (Spa) 6-2 3-0(Montanes retired). Women’s singles: 2-Simona Halep (Rom) bt Danielle Collins (USA) 6-7, 6-1, 6-2; 6-Angelique Kerber (Ger) bt Ksenia Pervak (Rus) 6-2, 3-6, 7-5; 4-Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) bt Sharon Fichman (Can) 6-1, 6-0; Zheng Saisai (Chi) bt Stefanie Voegele (Swi) 1-6, 6-2, 6-2; Belinda Bencic (Swi) bt Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) 6-3, 6-2; 31-Kurumi Nara (Jap) bt Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) 6-2, 6-1. 18-Andrea Petkovic (Ger) bt Ons Jabeur (Tun) 7-6(7), 1-6, 6-3; 14-Lucie Safarova (Cze) bt Timea Babos (Hun) 6-4, 7-5. </p>