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Bulgaria's Lia Karatancheva qualifies for the third round in Santo Domingo tennis tournament

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Bulgarian tennis player Lia Karatancheva qualified for the third round of the singles hard court tennis tournament in Santo Domingo with a prize fund of 25 thousand dollars. Karatancheva defeated Hannah Chan (USA), number 14 in the rankings and 313th in the world, 7:5, 6:1 in an hour and 52 minutes.

Karatantcheva will be playing against the second seed Carole Monnet of France for a place in the quarterfinals.

The doubles match of Lia Karatancheva and Hina Inoue (USA) against the Americans Jada Myii Hart and Rasheeda McAdoo was suspended at 5:7, 4:4 and will be played later today.

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