Recently, Sorana Kirstja has won against several important players, and our athlete will play in the 1/8 finals of the “WTA 1000” tournament in Dubai with Donna Vekic (31st in the world).

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Sorana Kirstea will play Donna Vekic in the 1/8 finals of the WTA tournament in Dubai on Wednesday

According to the schedule released by the organizers, the match between Kirstea and Vekic will be the third on Court 1.

Marketa Vondrousova – Lyudmila Samsonova (from 10:00) and Olena Ostapenko – Anna Kalinska will also meet in this arena.

So the match between Sorana and Donna can start around 13:30 (Romanian time) and will be broadcast live on DigiSport 2.

Know:

• For being in eighth place, Sorana will receive a check for $36,454 and 120 points in the WTA singles ranking.

• The winner between Kirstea and Vekic will meet in the quarters with the winner between Marketa Vondrousova (favorite 7) and Lyudmila Samsonova (12).

Who is Donna Vekich?

Currently, Donna Vekic is ranked 31st in the WTA rankings, and on November 4, 2019, she reached 19th place.

She is a quarterfinalist at the 2019 US Open and 2023 Australian Open.

In her career, Donna Vekic won tournaments in Kuala Lumpur (2014), Nottingham (2017), Courmayeur (2021) and Monterrey (2023).

“I didn’t have high expectations when I came to Dubai. I told my coach that I consider this week off. I can tell you that I spent more time on the beach than on the field. Maybe this is a good way to move forward” – Donna Vekichbefore the match with Sorana Kirstea.

Sorana Kirstea vs. Donna Vekic, 3-2 in straight matches

2022, Birmingham: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 on Kirstea

2017, Pain: 6-4, 6-1 for Vekic

2015 US Open: 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-4 for Kirsty

2015 Contrexville: (4) 6-7, 7-5, 6-4 for Kirstea

2013, Birmingham: 6-2, 6-1 for Vekic.

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

Best: Donna Vekich

Quarters: Marketa Vondrousova / Lyudmila Samsonova

Semi-final: Olena Rybakina / Maria Sakkari

Final: Iga Svyatek / Coco Gauf / Qinwen Zheng / Yelena Ostapenko.

Sorana Kirstea is very close to the best rating in her career

Sorana has beaten big names in recent events (Caroline Garcia, Maria Sakkari, Sloane Stephens, Sofia Kenin and Veronika Kudermetova) and is ranked 22nd in the WTA Live rankings.

If she beats Donna Vekic, Kirstia will match her career-best ranking of 21 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.

Optimi – 1953 points – 22nd place in WTA

Quarters – 2048 points – 21 WTA

Semi-final – 2223 points – 21 WTA

Result – 2483 points – 15th place in WTA

Champion – 2833 points – 14 WTA.

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.