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In 2010, Monica started the season in Auckland, coming from qualifying. In the
first round, she lost to fifth seed Virginie Razzano. In doubles, she
partnered Ioana Raluca Olaru, and they defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues
and Carla Suárez Navarro. In the second round, they lost to Cara Black and Liezel
Huber.
At the Australian Open, she lost in the first round to Jelena Janković. In doubles,
she partnered Chan Yung-jan and defeated Monique Adamczak and Nicole Kriz.
The pair defeated Alla Kudryavtseva and Ekaterina Makarova in the second
round. In the third round, they lost to sixth seeds Lisa Raymond and Rennae
Stubbs.
Niculescu then played an ITF tournament in Midland, but lost in the first round
to Eleni Daniilidou.
In Memphis, she lost in the first round qualifying to Valérie Tétreault. In doubles,
she reached the semifinals along with Riza Zalameda, losing to Vania
King and Michaëlla Krajicek.
At Indian Wells, she lost in qualifying
to Tamarine Tanasugarn. In doubles,
together with Michaëlla Krajicek, she lost in
first
round
to Bethanie
Mattek-
Sands and Yan Zi, 6–7, 2–6.
In Marbella failed to qualify in singles, but in
doubles she partnered Sophie Lefèvre. They
defeated Kristina Barrois and Ioana Raluca
Olaru in the first round, 6–3, 4–6, [10–7].
However, in the second round, they lost to
Virginia Ruano Pascual and Meghann
Shaughnessy, 2–6, 4–6.
She made again her best in Tashkent, where
she reached her first WTA semifinals but lost
to Elena Vesnina.
Although in the first half of the year she was struggling between ranks 100 and
150, by the middle of the year she reached top 100 again and ended the year as
No. 82 in the world, and No. 2 in Romania.
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