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• Sesil Karatantcheva Lost in the First Round in Bucharest
6 May 2008

Sesil Karatantcheva left the $50K ITF tournament in the Romanian capital Bucharest. The seeded 8 Karatantcheva was defeated by the wild card holder Simona Halep of Romania 6-4 3-6 0-6.

Sesil started the match very well and took the first set 6-4. Then she injured her ankle and this led to the poor game until the end of the match. In the second set after losing 1-4 she succeeded to decrease to 3-4. After that she was not able to win any game and lost the third 0-6.

Sesil gained 1 WTA rank point and 475 USD of the prize money.

According to preliminary information Karatantcheva will participate in the qualifications of the Internationaux de Strasbourg, III tier WTA tournament, $175K from 17 May as feed up from the tournament in Palm Beach Gardens where Sesil lost in the final match.

 



• Karatantcheva Starts as Seed 8 of the Main Draw of Gas de France Stars in Bucharest
6 May 2008

On Tuesday, 6 May 2008, Sesil Karatantcheva will play her first round match of the main draw as seed 8 against the wild card holder the Romanian Simona Halep, WTA Rank 574 at the 50,000 USD ITF tournament Gas de France Stars in the Romanian capital Bucharest.




 



• Sesil Karatantcheva Advances to 227 in WTA Ranking
5 May 2008

In the rankings of WTA of 5 May 2008 Sesil Karatantcheva is at position 227, climbing with 16 places from previous rank of 243. Karatantcheva has 125 points from 10 tournaments.

Tsvetana Pironkova loses one position and drops to 69. Dia Evtimova also loses positions and goes to rank 289.

There are no changes in the top 10 of the ranking. Justine Henin of Belgium is No 1 ahead of Ana Ivanovic of Serbia and the Russian Maria Sharapova.

 








Note on name spelling: Sesil Karatantcheva is Bulgarian. Bulgaria uses the Cyrillic alphabet. That's why the Bulgarian names are transliterated in Latin alphabet. Unfortunately there's no common transliteration table and what happens is that either every person decides how to transliterate his name or some journalists translitarate it. Very often the more common translitaration is different from the one written in the passport. And this is the case with the surname of Sesil. She's known as either Karatantcheva (used by WTA) or Karatancheva (on some Bulgarian English language media). Regardless of the transliteration it shoud be pronounced [ka:-ra:-'tan-che:-va:]

Her first name is transliterated as Sesil although some people might write it like Secile, Cecile, Secil. The way it should be prnounced is [se-'sil].

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09 May 2008