Sorana Cîrstea

Sorana Cîrstea

Sorana Cîrstea at the 2023 US Open
Country (sports)	Romania
Residence	Târgovişte, Romania
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2006
Retired	Active
Plays	Right (double handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 652,893
Singles
Career record	153–72
Career titles	1 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 36 (October 27, 2008)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1r (2008, 2009)
French Open	QF (2009)
Wimbledon	2r (2008)
US Open	2r (2008)
Doubles
Career record	87–40
Career titles	2 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 33 (March 9, 2009) updated = May 30, 2009

Sorana Cîrstea (pronounced [soˈrana ˈkɨrste̯a], born on April 7, 1990 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian female tennis player.

Career

Junior

She is a former ITF Junior Circuit top-ten player, reaching her highest ranking of number six on June 26, 2006. Her best results include a title in the 2005 German Junior Open (Grade 1) defeating Erika Zanchetta 6–2 6–7 6–3 in the final, a tournament she was finalist the year before and a runner-up place in the 2006 Trofeo Bonfiglio (Grade A) where she lost in the final to her compatriot Ioana Raluca Olaru after having defeated the then-top ranked world junior player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the semifinals. Cîrstea lost in the finals of the doubles tournament at the 2007 French Open, when she and Alexa Glatch lost 6–1, 6–4 to the third seeds, Ksenia Milevskaya and Urszula Radwańska. She also made final appearances at the year-ending ITF Grade 1 juniors tournaments Eddie Herr International and Yucatan World Cup in 2005 and 2006, and in the Opus Nottinghill International in 2006.

WTA

In April 2007, she reached the final of the Budapest Grand Prix, a Tier III event held in Budapest, Hungary, as a qualifier. During the tournament, all of her main draw matches were pushed to three sets. She beat Martina Müller in the second round, Eleni Daniilidou in the quarter-finals and Karin Knapp in the semi-finals before losing to Gisela Dulko in the final and won the first set, when Dulko won her first title by the scoreline of 6-7², 6–2, 6–2. By making it to the final, she became the first Romanian player to reach a Tour final since Ruxandra Dragomir in June 2000. During her run, she beat two players ranked inside the WTA top 40.

In 2008 in Tashkent, she won her first WTA tour title. She defeated Sabine Lisicki in the final.

At the 2009 French Open, Cirstea began her campaign with wins over Carly Gullickson of the United States and an upset of the #21 seed Alize Cornet. Having advanced to the third round of a grand slam for the first time, she defeated Caroline Wozniacki, the #10 seed 7-6, 7-5. Cirstea continued her unlikely run with a 3-6, 6-0, 9-7 upset over the #5 seeded Jelena Jankovic to advance to her first grand slam quarterfinal, where she faced #30 seed Samantha Stosur in the quarterfinal but lost 6-1, 6-3.

WTA Singles Wins (1)

Legend

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	October 5, 2008	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Sabine Lisicki	2–6, 6–4, 7–6(4)

WTA Doubles Wins (2)

Legend (Doubles)

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	May 4, 2008	Fes, Morocco	Clay	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Alisa Kleybanova Ekaterina Makarova	6–2 6–2
2.	October 26, 2008	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Marina Erakovic	Vera Dushevina Mariya Koryttseva	2-6, 6-3, 10-8

ITF Circuit

ITF Circuit Singles Wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	Oct 24, 2005	ITF $10 000 Porto Santo, Portugal	Hard	Pauline Wong	6-2, 7-6(3)
2.	Feb 13, 2006	ITF $10 000 Albufeira, Portugal	Hard	Chayenne Ewijk	6-0, 7-5
3.	May 9, 2006	ITF $10 000 Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Simona Matei	6-2 2-6 7-5
2.	July 31, 2007	ITF $25 000 Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Alexandra Dulgheru	6-4, 6-3

ITF Circuit Doubles Wins (9)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	Aug 23, 2004	$10 000 Timisoara, Romania	Clay	Gabriela Niculescu	Lenore Lazaroiu Ioana Raluca Olaru	6-1 2-6 6-2
2.	Aug 30, 2004	$10 000 Arad, Romania	Clay	Gabriela Niculescu	Yevgenia Savranksa Sandra Záhlavová	6-2 6-2
3.	Oct 10, 2005	$10 000 Porto Santo, Portugal (4)	Hard	Alexandra Orasanu	Diana Eriksson Nadja Roma	5-7 7-5 6-4
4.	Oct 17, 2005	$10 000 Porto Santo, Portugal (5)	Hard	Alexandra Orasanu	Hannah Kuervers Imke Kusgen	6-7(2) 6-4 6-0
5.	May 2, 2006	$10 000 Bucharest, Romania (1)	Clay	Gabriela Niculescu	Ioana Raluca Olaru Simona Matei	6-4 0-6 7-6(3)
6.	Sept 18, 2006	$25 000 Madrid, Spain (2)	Hard	Katie O'Brien	Gaelle Widmer Celine Cattaneo	6-4 6-4
7.	Mar 12, 2007	$25 000 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain	Hard	Madalina Gojnea	Claire Curran Melanie South	4-6 7-6(5) 6-4
8.	July 31, 2007	$25 000 Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Agnes Szatmari	Mihaela Buzarnescu Monica Niculescu	W/O
9.	Sept 8, 2008	$100 000 Athens, Greece	Clay	Galina Voskoboeva	Kristina Barrois Julia Schruff	6-2 6-4

Singles performance timeline

NM5				means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament.

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the French Open in Paris, France. Cirstea's involvement ended June 2, 2009.

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	1R	1R	0–2
French Open	A	A	2R	QF	5-2
Wimbledon	A	2R	2R		2-2
US Open	A	1R	2R		1-2
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A		0–0
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held		1R	Not Held	0–1
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	2R1	0-1
Key Biscayne	A	A	1R	1R	0–2
Madrid	Not Held			1R	0-1
Beijing	Not Tier I				0–0
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I			1R	0–1
Rome	A	A	A	A	0-0
Cincinnati	Not Tier I				0–0
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A		0-0
Tokyo	A	A	A		0–0
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
Charleston	A	A	3R	NM5	2-1
Zurich	1R	A	Not Tier I		0-1
Career Statistics
Tournaments played (WTA or ITF)	11	21	24	11	67
Tournaments won	2	1	1	0	4
Overall win-loss	34-9	48-20	41–23	9-12	132–64
Year-end ranking	364	117	39		N/A

¹ Cirstea received a bye in the first round of Indian Wells 2009.

External links

• Sorana Cîrstea profile on www.tenis.info.ro
• Sorana Cîrstea

• Sorana Cîrstea at the Women's Tennis Association
• Template:ITF junior profile