Pauline Parmentier

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.

Frenchwoman Pauline Parmentier ended her 10-year wait for a third WTA title by beating Polona Hercog 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the April 29 final in Istanbul.

Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu, second seeded, won the ITF tournament of Marseille, with total prizes worth 100,000 dollars.

On Sunday, in the final of the competition, Monica Niculescu, 67th in the WTA rankings, defeated French tennis player Pauline Parmentier, 8 seed, in two sets, 6-2, 7-5. AGERPRES

Romanian Monica Niculescu advanced on Wednesday to the round of 16 of the women's 100,000-dollar ITF tournament in Marseille, by defeating 6-3, 7-6 (3) Canadian Francoise Abanda in the first round.

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The first round of the Indian Wells tournament will pit against each other Bulgaria's best female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova and her fellow national Sesil Karatancheva.

This will be the third official encounter between Pironkova and Karatancheva, so far both of them having exchanged a victory against each other, daily Dnevnik reports.

Sesil Karatancheva has scored a win in her first match of the Indian Wells qualifying round. The tournament has a prize fund of USD 5, 381, 235.

The Bulgarian won against Çagla Buyukakcay from Turkey with 6:3, 6:4 and needs just one more win to qualify for the main scheme of the tournament.

MONTERREY - Serbia's top female tennis player Ana Ivanovic advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2015 WTA tournament in Monterrey, Mexico, after beating France's Pauline Parmentier 6-3, 6-2 Thursday morning CET.

Defending champion Ivanovic will next face another Frenchwoman, Kristina Mladenovic, who beat Russia's Vera Zvonareva 6-4, 6-2.

LINZ- Serbia's Ana Ivanovic has withdrawn from the WTA tournament in Linz as a precaution, after sustaining a left hip injury.

Ivanovic won the opening match on Tuesday against France's Pauline Parmentier.
World No. 8 has already qualified for the WTA Finals in Singapore, scheduled for October 17-26.

Photo Tanjug, M. Jelesijevic