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World No 1 Simona Halep shows practice makes perfect by beating training partner Wang Qiang to reach Indian Wells quarter-finals
Career best result for China’s No3 in California desert where she outshines Peng Shuai and Zhang Shuai
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World number one Simona Halep cruised past Wang Qiang of China 7-5, 6-1 in the fourth round of the WTA Tour’s Indian Wells tournament on Tuesday.
Halep, who is one of two former champions left in the draw, is now 17-1 on the season having already won a title in both singles and doubles at Shenzhen, China.
Halep advances to the quarter-finals where she will face unseeded Petra Martic of Croatia who beat Czech Marketa Vondrousova 6-3, 7-6 (7/4).
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Halep needed just 76 minutes on the main stadium court to dispatch her practice partner Wang as she won 64 per cent of her first-serve points and broke Wang’s serve seven times.
Halep said she is happy with the way she is playing at this stage in the tournament.
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“I wasn’t missing that much,” she said. “I dominated a little bit more.”
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