Sorana Kirstya and Marketa Vondrousova will meet on Monday in the 1/8 finals of the “WTA 1.000” tournament in Miami. The match at the Butch Buchholz Arena is being conducted in LiveBLOG format on HotNews.ro.

The match can be watched live on DigiSport 2.

Sorana Kirstea – Marketa Vondrousova, eighth at the Miami Open

The match between Kirstea and Vondrousova will start in a few minutes.

Anastasia Potapova (27 WTA) defeated Qinwen Zheng (23 WTA), score 6-4, 7-6(4).

Know:

• During this period, Kirstya and Vondrousov met twice with a score of 1:1.

• At the Australian Open 2021, the player from the Czech Republic won in two sets with a score of 6-2, 6-4, and at St. Petersburg in 2022, Sorana won 7-5, 3-6, 6-4.

• The winner of the match Kirstya – Vondrousova will beat the winner of the duel Arina Sabalenka (second favorite) – Barbor Krejchikova (16th favorite) in the quarters.

• A very good run from the tournament in Florida has already helped Sorani (74th in the world) make an important jump in the WTA hierarchy (up 16 places), and the match with Vondrousova could bring her, if successful, another rise. in the world ranking (up to 51st place).

The Miami Open takes place from March 21 to April 2 on hard, is part of the “WTA 1000” category and has a total prize pool of $8,800,000. There are 96 players in the main draw, and the reigning champion is Iga Svyatek.