Romania has four representatives in the main draw of the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, and three of them will play in the first round on Wednesday.

Sorana KirsteaPhoto: ROB PRANGE / AFP / Profimedia

Sorana Kirstea, Ana Bohdan and Gabriela Ruse will make their WTA Rome main draw debuts on Wednesday

From 12:00 p.m. Ana Bohdan (59 WTA) will open the tennis day on court 4 Japanese woman Nao Hibino (118 WTA, qualifier).

In the third match of the day on court 3 Gabriela Ruse (world ranking 152). Linda Frukhvirtova (the 55th athlete in the world). The game could start somewhere at 15:00.

finally, Sorana Kirstea (34 WTA) will play a match in the fourth match at the Pietrangeli Arena with Katya Volynets (102 WTA). The match could start around 16:30.

*In Romania, women’s matches can be watched live on Digisport channels.

The last champions of the Foro Italico

2022 – Iga Svyatek

2021 – Iga Svyatek

2020 – Simona Halep

2019 – Karolina Plishkova

2018 – Elina Svitolina (final with Simona Halep)

2017 – Elina Svitolina (final with Simona Halep)

2016 – Serena Williams

2015 – Maria Sharapova and others.

Know:

  • The Italian competition, founded in 1930, has been won three times by a Romanian athlete: Ilie Nestase, 1970 and 1973 editions, and Simona Halep, 2020.
  • They have also been in the finals: Ilie Nestase (1974, losing to Bjorn Borg), Virginia Ruzici (1978, 1980, 1981) and Simona Halep (2017, 2018, losing both times to Elina Svitolina).

WTA Rome takes place from May 9 to 20 on the clay in the Foro Italico complex. His total prize money is $3,572,618 and is in the “WTA 1000” category. Iga Svyatek became the champion of the last two competitions.