The 19th favorite in Indian Wells, Sorana Kirstea, will receive a free first round of the WTA 1000 competition. In the second round, the athlete from Romania will meet Sloane Stevens or Mayar Sherif.

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Sorana Cîrstea’s virtual route at Indian Wells 2024

Semi-finalist in Dubai, Sorana comes to the tournament in the Californian desert in good spirits. At age 33, Kirstea is seeded No. 19 at Indian Wells and will have a free first round.

This guarantees a prize of $42,000 plus 10 WTA singles points.

Sorana Cîrstea’s virtual route at Indian Wells 2024

* Of course, if the favorites respect their status and prevail.

Round I: Free, seeded

Round II: Sloane Stephens / Mayar Sherif

III round: Darya Kasatkina / Okean Dodin / Elina Avanesyan

The best: Qinwen Zheng / Victoria Azarenka

Quarters: Coco Gauff / Angelina Kalinin / Elise Mertens

Semi-final: Aryna Sabalenko / Jessica Pegula / Maria Sakkari

Final: Iga Svyatek / Olena Rybakina / Marketa Vondrousova.

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Sorana Kirstea and Sloane Stevens met three times at the WTA tournament with a score of 2:1 in favor of our player.

The American won at Roland Garros 2022 (3-6, 6-2, 6-0), while Sorana won in Dubai in 2013 (5-7, 6-3, 6-2) and in Doha this year (6-3) ). , 6-2).

Sorana has played just one match against Mayar Sherif, an emphatic 6-2, 6-1 victory in Doha in 2022.

Know:

• Two representatives of Romania are directly admitted to the main draw in Indian Wells: Sorana Kirstia (19th favorite, first random round) and Ana Bohdan (match with Diana Schneider).

The BNP Paribas Open, a WTA 1000 tournament, will be held from March 6 to 17. It is played in Indian Wells (California), on hard, offers prizes worth $9,258,080, and the title champion was Olena Rybakina (2023).