According to statistics presented by the WTA website, and quoted by Mediafax, the 22 years old tennis player had won 4,564 million dollars in her career before Wimbledon. The qualification in the semifinals is rewarded by the London competition with 440,000 pounds, or about 754 000 dollars, raising the total amount of her earnings to 5.318 million dollars.
According to the ATP official website, Andrei Pavel, former world number 13, has "earned" 5.225 million dollars in his 14-year professional career.
The 3rd in the ranking of "all-time" Romanians is Victor Hanescu, a player still in activity, with 4.3 million dollars.
This hierarchy does not take into account the dollar inflation nor the fact that in the past, the awards used to be smaller.
Simona Halep, 3rd WTA and number three head of series, became on Wednesday the first player from Romania to qualify into the semifinals of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament after defeating by a score of 6-4, 6 -0, the German athlete Sabine Lisicki, No. 19 WTA and 19 head of series.
Halep exceed the performance obtained by Virginia Ruzici, qualified in the quarters in 1978 and 1981.
In the semifinals, Halep will meet Eugenie Bouchard (Canada, 13th WTA and 13 head of series).
The player born in Constanţa is only one game away from becoming no. 2 WTA. A qualification into the final will make Halep accede to the second position, after the American Serena Williams.
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