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Play-off, UCL: People – Dinamo Kiev, Wednesday, time 22:00, Digi Sport 1
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Turul 3, or: Djurgården – CFR Cluj, Thursday now 20:00, Digi Sport 1
Niculescu (32 years, 141 WTA), seed number 14, surpassed the Japanese Chihiro Muramatsu (22 years old, 208 WTA) at 6-2, 7-5, after one hour and 43 minutes. Her next rival will be the Bulgarian Eliţa Kostova (30 ani, 212 WTA).
Monica Niculescu, Jaqueline Cristian and Laura Ioana Paar, in the second round of qualifying at Roland Garros!
Monica won the two previous duels with Kostova, 6-2, 6-4 in 2012, in the first round in Poitiers, and 7-5, 7-5 in 2014, in the eighth in Bucharest.
Jaqueline christian (22 years old, 166 WTA) defeated the Slovak Jana Cepelova (27 years old, 176 WTA) with 6-3, 7-6 (4), in one hour and 30 minutes. The Romanian made the difference in terms of winners (21-13), both players had 31 unprovoked errors each.
In the second round, Cristian will face the Argentine Nadia podoroska (23 years old, 130 WTA), whom she defeated in 2017, in Surprise (Arizona), 6-4, 6-3, in the first round.
Laura Ioana Paar (32 years old, 199 WTA) needed three sets to win against the French Margot Yerolymos (23 years old, 310 WTA), with 1-6, 6-2, 6-2, after one hour and 41 minutes.
The Romanian started very weak and was dominated in the first set, losing 1-6. Paar performed much better and won without issue in the next two sets, at 6-2, 6-2.
In the next round Laura Paar will have a valuable opponent, the Ukrainian Marta Kostiuk (18, 119 WTA), second seed.
Mihaela Buzărnescu, eliminated from the first qualifying round at Roland Garros
Mihaela Buzărnescu (32 years old, 127 WTA), the fifth favorite in the preliminary table, was beaten in the first round by the British Harriet Dart (24 years old, 150 WTA) with 6-3, 6-0, in just 63 minutes. Buzărnescu He committed 6 double faults (Dart 7), had fewer direct winning balls (11-18) and more unprovoked errors (29-18).
And their first confrontation ended with the victory of the British, in 2016, in Saguenay (Canada), with 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, in the first round.
Buzărnescu will receive 2 WTA points and 10,000 euros per participation, while Niculescu, Christian and Pair each got 16,000 euros and 20 WTA points.
Three other Romanians play in the Roland Garros qualifying rounds on Wednesday
Three more Romanians will participate in the race on Wednesday, Irina Bara, Elena Gabriela Ruse and Gabriela Talabă.
Only (25 years old, 163 WTA) will play in the first round against Croatia Tereza Mrdeza (29 years old, 242 WTA). Mrdeza is 4-2 in direct matches, winning the last duel, in February, in Cairo, in the round of 16, with 6-4, 6-4.
Russian (22 years old, 178 WTA) will face the Russian in the first round Victoria Kan (25 years old, 221 WTA).
Felling (25 years old, 240 WTA) will play in the first round against the Danish Clara Tauson (17 years old, 196 WTA).
Five Romanians directly entered the main picture, Simona Halep (head of series number 1), Patricia Ţig, Irina Begu, Sorana Cîrstea and Ana Bogdan.
Agerpres
Tags: monica niculescu , Roland Garros , mihaela buzărnescu , jaqueline cristian , ioana couple
