Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu on Thursday qualified for the semifinals of the ITF tournament in Himki (Russia), equipped with total prizes worth 100,000 US dollars, after defeating Serbian Ivana Jorovic, seed no. 8, 6-3, 6-1.
Monica defeated Jorovic (20, WTA's 234th) before, in their only meeting, in 2016, in Poitiers (ITF, 100,000 US dollars), 6-2, 6-2, in the first round.
Monica Niculescu will meet Russian Anastasia Potapova (17, WTA's 238th) in the semifinals