The pair made up of Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu and American Sabrina Santamaria qualified on Tuesday for the quarterfinals of the doubles event of the WTA 250 tournament in Guangzhou (China), with total prizes of 275,094 dollars, after a 3-6, 6-0, 10-6 victory over the pair Dominika Salkova (Czech Republic)/Ella Seidel (Germany).
Niculescu and Santamaria, the number three seeds, achieved the victory after 66 minutes of play.
Initially, the Romanian-American pair was supposed to play in the first round against the pair Anna Bondar (Hungary)/Veronika Erjavec (Slovenia), but the latter withdrew after the Slovenian suffered an abdominal injury.
Niculescu and her partner secured a cheque for 2,540 dollars and 54 WTA points in doubles.
In the quarterfinals, Niculescu
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