Arantxa Parra Santonja

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, WTA No 3, on Thursday qualified for the quarterfinals of the WTA grass-court tournament taking place in Birmingham (UK), equipped with total prizes worth 665,900 US dollars, after defeating Klara Koukalova (Czech Republic), 6-1, 6-3, in only 50 minutes.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Taipei's Chan Hao-ching have reached the second round of the doubles tournament in Miami after they notched up a win against Spanish Arantxa Parra Santonja / Sílvia Soler-Espinosa 7-5, 6-4.

TOKYO - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Spain's Arantxa Parra Santonja lost their semifinal match against the Indian-Zimbabwean pair of Sania Mirza and Cara Black 6-3, 6-2 at the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Friday.

Jankovic was ousted in the second round of the singles competition earlier.

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TOKYO - Serbian No. 2 Jelena Jankovic was ousted in the second round of singles at the WTA tournament in Tokyo by Garbine Muguruza of Spain 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 on Thursday.

The fourth-seeded Jankovic failed to justify the role of favorite against the talented 20-year-old.

TOKYO - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain have secured their spot in the doubles semifinals at the WTA tournament in Tokyo.

The Serbian-Spanish pair beat the Russian-Australian combination Alla Kudryavtseva/Anastasia Rodionova 2-6, 6-3, 10-6.