Jacqueline Christian stopped in the 1/8 finals of the tournament “WTA 125” in Angers, and Monica Niculescu reached the semifinals of the doubles of the French tournament on Thursday.
In singles, Christian (151 WTA) lost to American Alicia Parks (100 WTA), score 6-4, 6-4.
For being in eighth place, Jacqueline will receive 1,613 euros and 15 points in the WTA ranking (in the real-time ranking, she is on 119th place).
In doubles, Niculescu and Vivian Geisen beat the pair of Nadia Kichenok/Kimberly Zimmermann (Ukraine/Belgium) with a score of 6-4, 6-3.
To reach the finals, Monika and her colleague from Germany will play against the winning pair of Alicia Parks/Shuai Zhang (USA/China, main favorites) – Anastasia Detyuk/Oksana Kalashnikova (USA/Georgia).
By advancing to the semifinals, Niculescu and Geisen secured a prize of €2,100 and 57 points in the WTA doubles rankings.
Source: Hot News
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