Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse and Australia's Maya Joint have reached the quarter-finals of the doubles event at the WTA 250 tournament in Seoul, which has total prize money of 283,347 US dollars, after defeating the Hungarian pairing of Anna Bondar and Fanny Stollar, 6-1, 7-6 (7-2).
The second seeds won after one hour and 20 minutes of play, committing five double faults compared with eight by their opponents.
Ruse and her partner secured a 2,620 US dollars prize and 54 WTA doubles ranking points. In the quarter-finals, they will face the winners of the match between South Korea's Eunhye Lee and Sohyun Park and Taiwan's Ya Hsin Lee and China's Qiu Yu Ye.
Gabriela Ruse will also compete in the singles event, where she is the fourth seed. In the first round, she will face Germany's Eva Lys.
