Barbora Strycova

Romanian-French pair Mihaela Buzarnescu / Alize Cornet qualified on Tuesday for the quarterfinals of the doubles event of the Gippsland Trophy (WTA 500) tennis tournament in Melbourne, with total prizes of 565,530 dollars, by defeating Hayley Carter (USA) / Luisa Stefani (Brazil) 6-3, 6-1. Buzarnescu and Cornet won in only 55 minutes versus the 6th seeds.

Romanians Monica Niculescu, Patricia Tig and Simona Halep won doubles matches at the Gippsland Trophy (WTA 500) tournament in Melbourne on Tuesday, with total prizes of 565,530 dollars. The pair Monica Niculescu / Patricia Tig won 6-3, 6-3 versus 4th seeds Andreja Klepac (Slovenia) / Elise Mertens (Belgium), in just 66 minutes.

WUHAN - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic has been ousted from the WTA tennis tournament in Wuhan, China, after losing to Czech Barbora Strycova 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the round of last 16 early Thursday.

Strycova came from a set behind to win the match after nearly two and a half hours of play.

The prize money in Wuhan is 2,589,000 dollars.

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WUHAN - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic is through to the last 16 of the WTA tennis tournament in Wuhan, China, after beating world number 3 Garbine Muguruza of Spain 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) in Round 2 on Tuesday.

Jankovic won after 102 minutes of play and is now 2-3 head-to-head against Muguruza.

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.