Sorana Cirstea
Sorana Cirstea – WTA Tennis Player
Latest Title: Sorana Cirstea wins the Transylvania Open 2026 title
Personal Info
Born on 7 April 1990 in Bucharest, Romania.
Nationality: Romania.
WTA Rank (as of 26 August 2026): 17.
WTA Doubles Rank (as of 22 August 2025): 54.
Height: 5 ft. 9 in. (1.75 m).
Sorana Cirstea – Career Information
Singles Titles: 4 | Doubles Titles: 6
Matches Won: 608 | Matches Lost: 450
Highest WTA Rank: 17 (13 July 2026)
Highest Doubles Rank: 35 (9 March 2009)
Data last updated: 26 August 2026
Earnings
Total Career Prize Money: $12,653,841 USD (approx. €10,858,767)
Data last updated: 26 August 2026
Miscellaneous
Information compiled by tennis fans from official WTA and ITF sources.
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Jessica Pegula Keeps Her US Open Mileage Low With Straight-Set Win Over Sorana Cirstea
Jessica Pegula vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula has reached the US Open quarterfinals without spending much unnecessary time getting there. Sorana Cirstea made this one considerably less tidy than the score suggests, particularly once both women began attacking each other’s service games, but Pegula kept finding the better…
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At 36, Sorana Cirstea Beats Jasmine Paolini and Pushes Her Career High Even Higher
Jasmine Paolini vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report Sorana Cirstea is 36 years old and virtually up to No. 15 in the world. That may be the most remarkable part of her US Open. The Romanian continued an extraordinary late-career rise by beating No. 19 seed Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-3, reaching…
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Jessica Pegula Lands the Most Open US Open Women’s Section: Main Draw Bracket Analysis With a Major Chance
Jessica Pegula could hardly have asked the US Open draw for much more. The No. 3 seed arrives in New York only four days removed from the Cincinnati final and with another chance to make a serious run at the Grand Slam that came closest to changing her career two years ago. And then the…
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Mirra Andreeva Turns a Closed Roof Into a Trap and Leaves Sorana Cirstea With Three Games
The roof was closed. The air was heavier. The court should have offered Sorana Cirstea a few ways to make this awkward. Instead, Mirra Andreeva turned Court Philippe-Chatrier into a room with very little oxygen. Cirstea arrived in the French Open quarter-finals with one of the best runs of her season, still carrying the glow…
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Mirra Andreeva Answers Every Clay-Court Question as Teichmann Runs Out of Places to Hide
Slice at Mirra Andreeva, and she can slice back. Hit heavy, and she will try to hit heavier. Throw moonballs into the Paris sky, and she has enough topspin of her own to make the clay feel like a trampoline. That is the frightening part of Andreeva’s Roland Garros run now. She is not winning…
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Roland Garros 2026 Women’s Singles: Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Roland Garros 2026 women’s singles tournament centre gives WTA tennis fans live scores, easy-to-read match results, the full draw, match-ups, and daily updates from Paris. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as the world’s top players compete in the second Grand Slam of the season. Last updated June 6, after the final…
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Coco Gauff Turns Into an Unbreakable Wall as Sorana Cirstea’s Rome Dream Ends
Coco Gauff has spent much of this clay-court swing firefighting. In Rome on Thursday afternoon, she finally looked like a player who no longer needed rescuing. Sorana Cirstea arrived in the Italian capital as the tournament’s great disruptor, armed with a fearless forehand and fresh from toppling world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. But against Gauff…
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Sorana Cirstea Ages Like Fine Wine as Rome Dream Continues With Ruthless Ostapenko Win
Good wine does not shout. It settles. Deepens. Becomes calmer, richer and somehow more dangerous with time. Sorana Cirstea’s tennis currently feels much the same. At 36, in the final season of her career and playing a tournament she has always openly adored, the Romanian is producing some of the cleanest and most emotionally balanced…
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From Sorana Cirstea’s Renaissance to Mirra Andreeva’s Relentlessness — Rome’s Quarter-finals Suddenly Feel Wide Open
Rome was supposed to sharpen the hierarchy before Roland Garros. Instead, it has scrambled it. Partly. The world No. 1 is gone. The defending champion is gone. Madison Keys is gone. So is Amanda Anisimova before even striking a ball. Around them, teenagers have exploded into contention, qualifiers have distorted entire sections of the draw…
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Sorana Cirstea, the Hand That Keeps Giving, Produces One of Rome’s Biggest Shocks Against Sabalenka
For a set and a half, this looked like the inevitable ending to a familiar story. Aryna Sabalenka was overpowering the court, flattening rallies and moving steadily toward another routine victory in Rome. Sorana Cirstea — now 36, playing the final season of a career that has stretched across generations of the WTA Tour —…
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Coco Gauff Overcomes Illness and Chaos to Outlast Cirstea in Madrid Classic
Coco Gauff did not so much win this match as endure it, navigate it, and finally impose herself on it. On a Madrid afternoon shaped by momentum swings and physical uncertainty, the American fought through illness and a set deficit to defeat Sorana Cirstea 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 and reach the fourth round. Gauff steadies after…
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Rouen Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Open de Rouen 2026 WTA 250 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules, and daily updates from France. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as some of the world’s top players compete in Rouen, Normandy.As last updated on April 19, after the conclusion of the final between Marta Kostyuk and…
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Linz Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Upper Austria Ladies Linz Open 2026 WTA tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules, and daily updates from Austria. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as the world’s top players compete in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. As last updated on April 12, following Mirra…
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Coco Gauff Opens Up on Motherhood, Mindset and Miami Breakthrough After Reaching First Quarter-Finall
Coco Gauff’s relationship with the Miami Open has often been uneasy. This year, it feels different. For the first time in her career, the American has broken into the quarter-finals of her home tournament, defeating Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in a match that tested both her composure and her evolving mindset. What followed was…
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Gauff in Control, Eala Electrifies Dubai: A Quarter of the Draw Comes Alive
Under the bright Dubai lights, one superstar imposed her authority — and one rising force shook the bracket. The Round of 32 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships delivered clarity in one corner of the draw and a spark of unpredictability in another. Coco Gauff handled business with poise. Alexandra Eala ignited the evening…
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Sorana Cirstea Paints Cluj Purple as She Claims Transylvania Open Title
The 2026 final of the Transylvania Open looked and felt like destiny. Purple dominated the court. Romanian flags framed the stands. At one end stood Sorana Cirstea, dressed to match the moment — purple socks, purple shirt, the home favorite chasing a WTA title in what she has already confirmed will be her final season…
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Transylvania Open 2026 Results: Full Tennis Scores, Daily Highlights and Key Stats (WTA 250)
Updated as of February 6. The Transylvania Open 2026 is a WTA 250 tournament played in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca. With the first day of the main draw upon us, all qualifying results are in. This page is built to follow the tournament match by match, day by day, with results updated regularly as the event unfolds.The…
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Cirstea Fumes Over Osaka’s Conduct After Frosty Net Exchange in Melbourne
Naomi Osaka won the match, but she did not win over her opponent. Sorana Cirstea left the court visibly unhappy after a tense Australian Open second-round clash, offering a frosty embrace and lingering words at the net that suggested this was about more than just a three-set defeat. Osaka’s 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victory carried her…
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Bold Swings and Steady Hands as Pressure Separates Eva Lys and Sorana Cirstea in Melbourne
One of the sharpest first-round contests of the Australian Open so far unfolded quietly but grippingly, with Germany’s Eva Lys and Romania’s Sorana Cirstea trading control, momentum, and nerve across a match that refused to settle. Elegant against elastic, calm against coiled — this was less a sprint than a psychological grind. Lys Strikes First…
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Sorana Cirstea Opens Up on Choosing Her Final Season — A Fresh Mindset Inspired by an 80-Year-Old Lady
Sorana Cirstea has spent nearly twenty years wrestling with the sport that shaped her. Now, at 34, she has finally made peace with an idea she once rejected outright: ending her career on her own terms. In a strikingly open conversation on the Tennis Insider Club podcast, the Romanian laid out why 2026 will be…
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Twenty Years Later, Cirstea Chooses Her Final Chapter
Sorana Cirstea has never been one for dramatic exits, but her announcement still carried a jolt: after two decades on tour, the Romanian shot-maker has decided 2026 will be her final season. At 35, with a résumé that stretches back to her teenage breakthrough, she told fans on Instagram that they have “one more year”…
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Youth Meets Experience: Leylah Fernandez and Sorana Cirstea Set for Osaka Semifinal Clash
Two generations of tennis excellence are set to collide in Osaka. On one side stands 23-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez, sharp, spirited, and back in form. On the other, 35-year-old Romanian Sorana Cirstea, still proving that precision and poise can outlast youth. Their semifinal at the WTA 250 Japan Open promises a compelling duel between fearless…
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“I Suffered a Heat Stroke”: Jelena Ostapenko Opens Up After Wuhan Open Retirement Amid Tough Season
Jelena Ostapenko has revealed that a severe heat stroke forced her to retire from her first-round match at the Wuhan Open. The Latvian star, trailing 0–6, 1–2 against Romania’s Sorana Cirstea, was visibly struggling before calling it quits. In an Instagram post, the 28-year-old thanked fans for their support and promised to “be back stronger…
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Badosa, Muchova and Paolini Advance on Byes as Boulter, Sevastova Shine in Beijing
With all first-round results now in from the Paolini and Anisimova section, the draw is set and attention turns to the second round of the China Open. Seeds who enjoyed byes are about to step into action, while unseeded players who battled through tough openers carry momentum into their next tests. Seeds Sit Tight, Contenders…
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Is Karolina Muchova A Title Contender? Czech Survives Sorana Cirstea In Three-Set Thriller To Reach US Open Third Round
Karolina Muchova battled past Romania’s Sorana Cirstea in a gripping second-round clash at the 2025 US Open, eventually prevailing 7–6(7-0), 6–7(3-7), 6–4. Both players traded momentum throughout, combining fearless baseline hitting with extended rallies that thrilled the New York crowd. For Muchova, the win marked a test of fitness, nerve and resilience; for Cirstea, it…
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Sorana Cirstea Shines in Cleveland 2025: All-Smiles Champion Lifts Trophy at the Expense of Ann Li
Romania’s Sorana Cirstea capped her Cleveland campaign in style, defeating American Ann Li to lift the 2025 Tennis in the Land trophy. Cirstea Makes Her Intentions Clear With Commanding First Set Backed by her trademark forehand and aggressive baseline rhythm, Cirstea looked every bit the seasoned competitor who first turned professional in 2006. With two…
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Cleveland WTA 2025: Tennis in the Land Results, Qualifiers, and Full Match Stats From the QFs
Who Will Take McCartney Kessler’s Cleveland Crown in 2025? The Cleveland WTA 2025, better known as Tennis in the Land, brings world-class women’s tennis back to Ohio just days before the US Open. This WTA 250 event has quickly built a reputation for producing surprises, as top seeds test their form against fearless challengers on…