Six Romanians progress to M15 Bucharest QFs

Six of the eight Romanian tennis players that made it to the round of 16 of the M15 Bucharest tournament organised by Tenis Club Bucharest, prize money USD 15,000, advanced to the quarterfinals after Thursday's fixtures.

Cezar Cretu (fourth seed), Stefan Adrian Andreescu (fifth seed), Radu Mihai Papoe (sixth seed), Stefan Palosi (seventh seed), Radu David Turcanu (eighth seed), and Rares Teodor Pieleanu are the six Romanian players in the quarterfinals, agerpres reports.

Two fixtures will be all Romanian: Palosi v. Cretu and Andreescu v. Pieleanu, while Papoe will face Ovcharenko, and Turcanu will face Nesterov.

In doubles, all the semi-finalists are Romanians.

Thursday's results:

Singles, round of 16

N.1 Oleksandr Ovcharenko (Ukraine) beat Robert Guna 4-6 7-6 (7/1) 6-4

N.6 Radu Mihai Papoe beat Francesco Ferrari (Italy) 6-3 6-2

N.3 Piotr Nesterov (Bulgaria) beat Mihai Razvan Marinescu 7-6 (7/3) 6-2

N.8 Radu David Turcanu beat Diego Fernandez Flores (Chile) 7-6 (7/2) 6-1

N.7 Stefan Palosi beat Rafael Giotis (Germany) 6-4 7-5

N.4 Cezar Cretu beat Uladzimir Ignatik (Belarus) 6-3 6-2

N.5 Stefan Adrian Andreescu beat William Mirarchi (Italy) 4-6 6-4 6-4

Rares Teodor Pieleanu beat N.9 Tomas Farjat (Argentina) 6-2 7-6 (7/1)

Doubles, quarterfinals

Mihai Alexandru Coman/Gheorghe Claudiu Schinteie beat N.1 Joao Victor Couto Loureiro (Brazil)/Diego Fernandez Flores (Chile) 3-6 7-6 (7/3)10-4

N.4 Stefan Adrian Andreescu/Dragos Nicolae Cazacu beat Rares Teodor Pieleanu (Romania)/Alessandro Bellifemine (Italy) 6-4 5-7 10-4

N.3 Gabriel Ghetu/Radu David Turcanu beat Caesar Stefan Bentzel/Daniel Uta 7-5 6-3

I oan Alexandru Chirita/Robert Guna beat- Tomas Farjat/Fermin Tenti (Argentina) 6-2 6-2.