Nicole Gibbs

The pair made up of Romanian player Monica Niculescu and Russian Ana Blinkova qualified on Thursday for the doubles semifinals of the Open de Limoges WTA 125 K tournament (France), with total prizes of 125,000 dollars, by defeating Sofia Sapatava (Georgia) and Emily Webley-Smith (United Kingdom), 6-2, 6-1. It took the main seeds only 46 minutes to win.

Romanian tennis player Sorana Cirstea qualified on Thursday for the quarterfinals of the Open de Limoges WTA 125 K tournament, with total prize money worth 125,000 USD, after she scored 6-3, 6-3 against Spanish player Sara Sorribes Tormo. Cirstea (29, WTA's 74th) won in one hour and 19 minutes.

Top-ranked Serena Williams fended off three set points before going on a 10-game roll to beat Vera Zvonareva 7-5, 6-0 and move into the third round of the Australian Open.
     
Men's No. 1 Novak Djokovic had an easier run, spending a minute less than Williams on Rod Laver Arena in his 84-minute, 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 win over No. 88-ranked Andrey Kuznetsov on Thursday.
     

Making it into the ATP World Tour finals in London will be Grigor Dimitrov's main goal until the end of the season, Bulgaria's top tennis player delcared on Sunday.

Dimitrov described the past months as "the best season" in his career while speaking at his first press conference before the China Open tournament in Chinese capital Beijing.

Bulgaria's tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova started her participation in the China Open tennis tournament with a victory.

She beat the American Nicole Gibbs by 4:6, 6:2, 7:5, and qualified for the next round. There the Bulgarian tennis player will face Croatian Ajla Tomljanović.

CINCINNATI - Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic advanced to the second round of the WTA Premier event in Cincinnati after beating Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-1, 7-5 in the opening round on Monday.

Ivanovic will next play the winner of the all-American clash between Nicole Gibbs and Christina McHale.