Romania remained without representatives in Madrid on the simple picture »Jaqueline Cristian also lost in the first round

The Madrid tour was always one in which the Romanians felt very good. The competition whose license was held by Ion Țiriac has always represented a landmark.

Since the 2011 edition, they have always been a “tricolore” players who managed to cross the first round. He also helped the fact that Simona Halep made Madrid an objective, imposing himself in 2016 and 2017 and disputing the finals in 2014 and 2019. Sorna Cîrstea, Irina Begu and Patricia Țig also ticked quarters.

This year things are different. After Sorana Cîrstea and Irina Begu lost in the first round, Jaqueline Cristian was also eliminated.

Jaqueline Cristian, hard start

Met an opponent he knew quite well. The Romanian and Sonay Kartal had gone twice so far, each time on the hard, dividing their victories. The Romanian was imposed in 2022 in the ITF tournament in Le Neubourg, with prizes of $ 80,000, in round 1, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3, and Kartal was revealed in 2024 in the WTA 250 competition from Monastir, also in Round, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.

Jaqueline played only two matches on the slag in 2025, the ones from Rouen, Indoor, where she arrived in the tour. The French Varvara Gracheva.

The match between Cristian and Kartal from Madrid was scheduled on one of the outer lands, more precisely on the fifth. Because the previous parties were extended, the match between the Romanian and the British began the last of the feminine scheduled on Wednesday.

Jaqueline Cristian began tense the confrontation, giving up his service and failing to enter the match immediately. But the break woke her somehow and returned by making the re-break. A heated discussion with the referee regarding a derailed out of the game. Then, a few uninspired decisions to come to the net made the set flow in favor of Kartal, the one who managed to choose the inspired blows. The British won 6-4 in the first set in thirty-seven minutes.

The second part began under the sign of balance, both players serving well. Jaqueline was beginning to find his pace, and that was heard from the way he hit the ball. However, Kartal managed to break the wall and drive 4-2, then Cristian began to be much more aggressive, pushing his opponent in defensive with excellent points.

But the British kept its blood cold and made a good range on its own service, taking the pressure on the shoulders of the Romanian, which was to serve at a delicate moment, threatening the party's conclusion. Things were complicated at 15-15, when a ball of the British was considered as Romanian. The frustration was huge, but the anger helped Jaqueline, who played some points like a metronome, managing to equal 5. Sonay was also perfect at work, winning a range to zero and again moving the Romanian pressure to 6-5. This time, the Romanian gave up, a reverb beyond Jaqueline Cristian's bottom line set the set after 52 minutes, by default. Sonay Kartal won 6-4, 7-5.

At Madrid, Jaq was at the fourth presence, three times on the main panel, last year succeeding the best result of it. Coming from qualifications, he arrived in the third round with victories at Magdalena Frech (Poland) and the future champion in Wimbledon, Barbora Krejcikova in the Czech Republic. He lost in front of the American Danielle Collins, in a very good shape at the time.