Tennis-Qatar Open women's singles results

Feb 16 (Reuters) - Results from the third round of the

Qatar Open women's singles on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding)

5-Marion Bartoli (France) beat Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria)

6-3 6-3

Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) beat 14-Svetlana Kuznetsova

(Russia) 7-6(6) 6-3

3-Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat Petra Cetkovska (Czech

Republic) 6-3 6-2

Monica Niculescu (Romania) beat Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine)

7-6(5) 6-4

1-Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) beat Simona Halep (Romania) 6-3

6-1

Christina McHale (U.S.) beat Shahar Peer (Israel) 4-6 6-3 6-4

4-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) beat Varvara Lepchenko (U.S.)

7-5 6-1

Yanina Wickmayer (Belgium) beat Ksenia Pervak (Kazakhstan) 6-4

6-0

(Compiled by Infostrada Sports, editing by Tom Pilcher)