Julia Görges

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has qualified on Thursday night for the semifinals of the USD 916,131 WTA Doha tournament after defeating German Julia Goerges, 7-6 (1) 7-6 (6).

Halep (27 y/o, WTA #3), main seeded who starting next Monday will climb to #2 WTA, prevailed in two hours.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep qualified for the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament in Doha (Qatar), featuring total prizes worth 916,131 US dollars, after 6-2, 6-3 with Ukrainian Lesia Turenko, a victory that will bring her to the second position in the world hierarchy.

Bulgarian tennis player Sesil Karatantcheva was scored a victory over Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova at the qualifiers of Western and Southern Open tennis tournament in Cincinnati, OH (US).

Karatantcheva won 5:7, 6:4, 6:3 in a match that lasted 2 h 13 m, Bulgarian news website Dnevnik.bg has reported.

MIAMI - Serbia's Ana Ivanovic has progressed to the third round of the WTA tournament in Miami courtesy of a deserved victory over Irina Falconi of the U.S. 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-3.

Ivanovic is now Serbia's only female representative in Miami after Jelena Jankovic, Bojana Jovanovski and Aleksandra Krunic dropped put.

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.