Flavia Pennetta

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep on Monday evening advanced to the quarter-finals of the women's singles event of the 5,381,235-dollar Miami Open WTA tournament after defeating Italy's Flavia Pennetta (seeded 15th), 6-3, 7-5.

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Romania's tennis player Simona Halep , currently world's number 3, on Sunday advanced to the women's singles round of 16 of the 5,381,235-US-dollar WTA Miami Open 2015 tournament, after defeating Italy's Camila Giorgi, 6-4, 7-5.

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The two female tennis players representing Bulgaria at the women's singles competition in Miami were defeated in the second round on Friday.

Tsvetana Pironkova was defeated by the Italian Flavia Pennetta with 7:6 (1), 3:6, 3:6, while Sesil Karatancheva lost to Garbine Muguruza from Spain with 1:6, 3:6.

Bulgarian tennis player Sesil Karatancheva goes on with her stable performance in the Miami Open tournament.

The second best in the Bulgarian ranking was off to a successful start Thursday, defeating US player Lauren Davis by 6:3, 7:6 (5). Karatancheva will be facing the ranked number 21 in the tournament Garbiñe Muguruza in the next round.

Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova needed six match points to grind out a 6-4, 6-3 win over Victoria Azarenka in a rare early marquee matchup at Indian Wells on March 16.
      

Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova recorded a victory in the first round of the women's singles competition at the Apia International Sydney on Monday.

Pironkova won against Italy's Flavia Pennetta with 6:3, 7:6 (4) in a match that lasted hour and a half.

ROME - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic beat Italy's Flavia Pennetta 6-2 6-3 in Rome on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Italian Open.

Jankovic dominated throughout the match, earning a well-deserved victory against world number 12, her 8th in 10 matches against Pennetta.

She will next face Agnieszka Radwanska from Poland, who beat Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-4 6-1.

STUTTGART - Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic is through to quarterfinals at the WTA tournament in Stuttgart, after beating Julia Georges of Germany 2-1, in sets 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday.

The Serbian tennis player will next take on the winner of the match between Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova and second-seeded Simona Halep of Romania.

STUTTGART - Serbian tennis player Jelena Jankovic advanced to quarterfinals at the WTA tournament in Stuttgart, after defeating Flavia Pennetta of Italia 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday.

Jankovic upped her H2H record against Pennetta to 7-2.

STUTTGART - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic will face Flavia Pennetta in the second round of the Stuttgart WTA tennis tournament after the Italian beat Andrea Petkovic of Germany 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 late Wednesday.

Jankovic has a 6-2 head-to-head ratio against Pennetta, the current world number 13.

The Serbian beat Mona Barthel of Germany 2-6, 7-6, 6-3 late Wednesday.