What do you know about Sorana Cristea?

Question

She has beaten some major seeded players and in the quarterfinals in Paris, yet I had never even heard of her and can find little on the internet concerning her. She must be good to have gotten this far.

Answer 1

Sorana Cîrstea (born on April 7, 1990 in Targoviste, Romania) is a Romanian female tennis player.



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[1], where she faces Samantha Stosur.

Answer 2

This is from the RG Official site:



Sorana Cirstea’s star is most definitely on the rise. Safely through to the third round of this year’s edition of the French Open, the 19-year-old Romanian is full of ambition, no doubt as a result of her great passion for the sport of tennis.



It is fascinating the way some stars are born. Aged just 4, Sorana happened to be watching a Steffi Graf - Monica Seles match on TV. “Right then and there I fell in love with the game. I was gazing at those two players and I only wanted one thing, to do what they were doing. My parents thought tennis was a good idea with all the energy that I had. I didn’t waste anytime getting serious in the sport. I already had a coach by the time I was five years old,” recalls Sorana, who is now No41 in the world.



At age 14, Sorana secured her first contract with Adidas and began her career on the ITF circuit. It was full speed from there. Two years later she had three singles and four doubles wins under her belt. Then, in 2007 at Hertogenbosch, Sorana became the first Romanian to reach the final of a WTA event since Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie in 2000.



Learning to bide her time



Cirstea moved into the big league last season, qualifying for the second round in three of the four Grand Slams. Shooting up in the world rankings, Sorana had leapt to No36 by October. But the hardest was still to come.



“For a year now I haven’t been performing as well as I expected. I have lots of ambition and I’ve had to learn to be patient. That’s really the area I’ve had to work on. Now I’m just happy to be moving forward and see my hard work pay off. The wins will come, I’m just taking it one match at a time,” she says.



Sorana breezed past France’s Alizée Cornet on Thursday and will be up against close friend world No10 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark on Saturday. (See featured article here).



“Caroline is my best friend, we do everything together. It’s hard to forget that when you step on the court. Sometimes I have trouble leaving my emotions out of my game.”



Sorana is part of the Adidas Player Development Program, working with top trainers, and it was via this route that she was able to meet her idol Steffi Graf last month in Las Vegas. “Even before I knew I was going to turn pro I wanted to be like her. That was my dream,” she remembers, smiling.



Sorana is the figurehead of a whole new generation of women’s tennis in Romania. “I think when my Fed Cup teammates and I got into the top 100, we were able to set an example for lots of girls in the juniors. I think that gave them hope.”

Answer 3

i know that she is fine as hell, and has a killer forehand

Answer 4

she is good very good just check out her photos!!!