Alexandra Dulgheru

Not less than four Romanian tennis players are among the seeded players at the BRD Bucharest Open (WTA) tournament, equipped with total prizes worth 226,750 US dollars, to start on Monday on the BNR Arenas in the Capital City: Mihaela Buzarnescu is 2nd seeded, Irina Begu, last edition's winner, is 3rd seeded, Sorana Cirstea is seed no. 5 and Ana Bogdan is seed no. 6.

Romania will have first-ever eight players on a main singles board of a Grand Slam tournament, namely Wimbledon, after Alexandra Dulgheru and Elena-Gabriela Ruse qualified on Thursday by the victories clinched in the last tour of the preliminary phase.

The number of Romanian tennis players on the main draw of the women's singles event of the French Open 2018, the second grand slam tournament of the year, reached six, as Alexandra Dulgheru won Friday in the last round of qualifications.

Dulgheru, 28, world number 160, defeated German Tamara Korpatsch, 23, world number 145, 6-1 5-7 7-6 (7) after two hours and 46 minutes.

MADRID - Serbia's highest ranked player on the WTA rankings, Ana Ivanovic, advanced to the second round of Madrid Open, after her first round opponent, Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru, retired from the match on Saturday.

Ivanovic was leading by 2-6, 7-6 (7-1), 4-0.

Romania's women's tennis team will compete with Canada's team on April 18 - 19, away, in the playoff for the Fed Cup World Cup, according to the draw carried out in London, on Tuesday.

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Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has qualified for the second round of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slem tournament of the year, on Monday, in Melbourne, after defeating Karin Knapp (Italy), 6-3, 6-2.

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Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has qualified for the final of the 500,000-dollar WTA tournament in Shenzhen (China) on Friday, after defeating Chinese player Saisai Zheng by 6-2, 6-3, in one hour and 26 minutes of play.

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Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu was defeated by 6-1, 7-5 by Slovenian player Polona Hercog, on Monday, in the inaugural round of the 500,000 WTA Shenzhen tournament.