
Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini qualified for the quarter-finals of the doubles tournament at the WTA 1000 in Wuhan, beating the couple formed by Tereza Mihalikova and Olivia Nicholls in a comeback.
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The WTA 1000 tournament in Wuhan is a professional women's tennis event.
Quarterfinals conquered by Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini at the WTA 1000 in Wuhan. The two Italians (n.8) advance in the doubles tournament by coming from behind to beat the Slovakian Tereza Mihalikova (n.29) and the British Olivia Nicholls (n.29) in the second round 4-6 6-2 10-5, in just over an hour and a half.
On Friday the Italians will face in the quarterfinals the pair formed by the Kazakh Anna Danilina and the Chinese Zhang Shuai (n.7 and n.5), second seeding favorites.
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Errani and Paolini will face Danilina and Zhang in the quarterfinals on Friday.
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