The reason why Sorana Cîrstea retired just before playing for the final in Rouen

The reason why Sorana Cîrstea retired just before playing for the final in Rouen

Sorana Cîrstea went for an hour in Rouen, qualifying without much trouble in the semi-finals. And she had a good chance of reaching the final act, going up against Veronika Podrez, a Ukrainian outside the top 200 players in the world. But our tennis player announced her retirement from the competition even before the scheduled match today.

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L’Equipe wrote that Sorana Cîrstea informed the organizers that she was withdrawing from the tournament due to a medical problem with one leg. She didn’t want to risk an injury with the WTA 1000 tournaments in Madrid and Rome coming up, then Roland Garros.

Thanks to the route from Rouen, Sorana Cîrstea will end the week in 26th place in the WTA rankings, so she will be 99% seeded at the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. In the preliminary list, our athlete appears as favorite number 26, but the final verdict will come a week before the start of the Parisian competition.

Adrian Stoica

Adrian Stoica

Adrian is the founder and the visionary behind Cluj Napoca, a media platform committed to capturing and sharing the vibrant stories of Cluj-Napoca and Romania with an international audience. A graduate in international journalism from the University of Bucharest and holder of a Master’s in Cultural Studies from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Adrian has a robust educational background that equips him to understand and analyze the complexities of his native region's culture and history.