Sorana Kirstya equaled her best ranking in her career, and on Thursday she will try to get new points in the world ranking. In the quarterfinals of the “WTA 1000” tournament in Dubai, our athlete will meet Marketa Vondrousova (Wimbledon champion).

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Sorana Kirstea plays against Marketa Vondrousova in WTA Dubai on Thursday

Kirstya and Vondrousova will open the tennis day on the Dubai Central Court. The game will start at 12:00 and will be broadcast live on DigiSport 2 and LiveBLOG on HotNews.ro.

Then they will go: Jasmin Paolini – Olena Rybakina (4), Iga Svyatek (1) – Qinwen Zheng (6) and Coco Gauf (3) – Anna Kalinska.

Sorana Kirstya, advantage in direct matches with Marketa Vondrousova

Kirstya and Vondrousova have met three times at the WTA tournament so far with a score of 2:1 in favor of our player.

All matches were played on hard, and after Marketa’s victory at the Australian Open 2021, Sorana’s two victories followed: St. Petersburg and Miami.

2023, Miami: 7-6(3), 6-4 for Kersti

2022, str. Petersburg: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 for Kirsty

2021, Australian Open: 6-2, 6-4 for Vondrousova.

Sorana Kirstea repeated her best ranking in her career – 21st place

Sorana has beaten big names in recent events (Caroline Garcia, Maria Sakkari, Sloane Stevens, Sofia Kenin, Veronika Kudermetova and Donna Vekic) and is ranked 21st in the WTA Live rankings.

Kirstea equaled her best ranking of her career (21st place, she previously held this position in August 2013). In order to make a new jump in the ranking, the Romanians need to reach the finals of the competition in Dubai.

Quarters – 2048 points – 21 WTA

Semi-final – 2223 points – 21 WTA

Result – 2483 points – 15th place in WTA

Champion – 2833 points – 14 WTA.

Sorana Cîrstea, virtual track from WTA Dubai

I round: 6-3, 7-6(2) vs. Sofia Kenin

II round: 6-1, 6-4 against Veronika Kudermetova

Optimal: 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 with Donna Vekic

Quarter: Marketa Vondrousova

Semifinal: Olena Rybakina / Jasmin Paolini

Final: Iga Svyatek / Coco Gauf / Qinwen Zheng.

The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships runs from February 18 to 24 on hard, is part of the “WTA 1000” category and has a total prize pool of $3,211,715. Simona Halep won the tournament in 2015 and 2020, and the reigning champion is Barbora Krejcikova.