Swedish tennis player Rebecca Peterson advanced to the semifinals of the WTA 250 Transylvania Open tournament on Friday, taking place in BT Arena in Cluj-Napoca and endowed with total prizes of 235,238 US dollars, after defeating Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko in three sets, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Peterson (26 years old, WTA's 99th), who had defeated Irina Bara in the previous round, needed almost two hours of play (1 h 57 min) to get past Tsurenko (32 years old, WTA's 127th), a player from qualifiers.
In the semifinals, Peterson will play against the winner between Anett Kontaveit (Estonia), second seed, and Anhelina Kalinina (Ukraine, eighth seed), Agerpres informs.
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