Monica Niculescu

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.

Romania will have first-ever eight players on a main singles board of a Grand Slam tournament, namely Wimbledon, after Alexandra Dulgheru and Elena-Gabriela Ruse qualified on Thursday by the victories clinched in the last tour of the preliminary phase.

Romania's Simona Halep further tops the WTA ranking, 1,225 points clear of world No. 2, Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.

This is Halep's 33rd week at the top of the world ranking (17 weeks straight) and next Monday will see her overcoming Germany's Angelique Kerber, who spent 34 weeks as WTA leader, placing her 12th in an all-time record.

Romanian tennis player Sorana Cirstea qualified on Tuesday for the second round of the WTA tournament in Qatar (the Qatar Total Open), with prizes worth 3.1 million US dollars, after defeating Greek Maria Sakkari, with a score of 6-2, 6-3.

Sorana Cirstea (aged 27, WTA's 38th) defeated her 22-year old opponent (WTA's 60th) after one hour and 13 minutes.

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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Romanian tennis player Simona Halep went one place down, from 3rd to 4th, in the WTA ranking released on Monday, because she couldn't defend the points won last year in Doha, following the change in the competition calendar.

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Romania's women's tennis team will compete with Canada's team on April 18 - 19, away, in the playoff for the Fed Cup World Cup, according to the draw carried out in London, on Tuesday.

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Romania's Simona Halep is keeping at No. 3 in the world rankings of the best women tennis players (WTA) made public on Monday, after having won Shenzhen, China tournament on Saturday.

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Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu was defeated by 6-1, 7-5 by Slovenian player Polona Hercog, on Monday, in the inaugural round of the 500,000 WTA Shenzhen tournament.