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Tennis: Andreea Mitu and Monica Niculescu advance to Wimbledon ladies' doubles second round

Romanian tennis players Andreea Mitu and Monica Niculescu qualified for the second round of ladies' doubles event at Wimbledon, the third Gland Slam of the year, as they defeated Nicole Melichar (US) and Demi Schuurs (Netherlands) 6-2, 6-3. Mitu and Niculescu managed a remarkable victory, in one hour and 23 minutes, against the fourth seeded pair.

Tennis: Monica Niculescu, semifinalist in doubles event at Hobart (WTA)

The pairing made of Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu and Chinese player Zhaoxuan Yang qualified on Wednesday for the doubles event of the WTA tournament of Hobart, Australia, with total prizes worth 250,000 USD, after they won 6-1, 6-4 against Romanian - Kazakh pair Raluca Olaru/Galina Voskoboeva.

Zimonjic through to US Open mixed doubles semis

NEW YORK - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and his doubles partner Yung Jan Chan of Taiwan are through to the US Open mixed doubles semi-finals after beating the Brazilian-Kazakhstani duo of Bruno Soares and Yaroslava Shvedova 1-6, 6-3, 13-11 late Tuesday.

Zimonjic and Chan will next face the Croatian-German pairing of Mate Pavic and Laura Siegemund.

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