Results from the third day of the WTA Nuremberg Open on Wednesday (x denotes seeding): 1st round Jelena Jankovic (SRB x1) bt Arantxa Rus (NED) 6-4, 6-2 Simona Halep (ROM x7) bt Grace Min (USA) 6-0, 7-5 Estrella Cabeza (ESP) bt Tereza Martincova (CZE) 6-2, 6-3 Polona Hercog (SLO) bt Klara Zakopalova (CZE x2) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 2nd rd Simona Halep (ROM x7) bt bt Estrella Cabeza (ESP) 6-2, 6-1 Lourdes Domínguez (ESP x6) bt Mandy Minella (LUX) 6-1, 6-4 Andrea Petkovic (GER) bt Julia Görges (GER x4) 6-1, 7-5

Results on Friday from the fifth day of the $795,000 WTA Family Circle Cup: Quarter-finals Venus Williams (USA x5) bt Madison Keys (USA) 6-4, 6-4 Jelena Jankovic (SRB x9) bt Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 6-2, 6-1 Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE x6) 6-4, 6-1 Stefanie Voegele (SUI) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x2) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 3rd rd Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Mallory Burdette (USA) 6-4, 6-2 Madison Keys (USA) bt Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 Venus Williams (USA x5) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA x12) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2

World No. 1 Serena Williams, fresh from winning a record sixth Miami Masters title, will seek her third trophy of the season at the WTA Family Circle Cup claycourt event. Defending champion and top seed Williams, who like the other top-eight seeds received a first-round bye, will play her first match on Tuesday against Italy's Camila Giorgi, who eliminated Mandy Minella 6-4, 6-4 on Monday.

March 10 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Indian Wells Women's Singles Round 2 matches on Saturday Urszula Radwanska (Poland) beat 15-Sloane Stephens (U.S.) 6-3 6-4 8-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Alize Cornet (France) 6-4 3-6 6-3 1-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) beat Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) 6-4 6-1 24-Mona Barthel (Germany) beat Kiki Bertens (Netherlands) 6-1 6-4 29-Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat Kimiko Date-Krumm (Japan) 3-6 7-5 6-1 11-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) beat Taylor Townsend (U.S.