Ana Bogdan, defeated in the first round of the WTA 125 tournament from Grado »What Romanian player evolves this week on grass and slag
Article by Luminița Paul – published Monday, June 9, 2025 19:46 / Updated Monday, June 9, 2025 7:46
Ana Bogdan (30 years old, 250 WTA) was defeated from the 1st Tour of the WTA 125 category tournament (Italy) by Slovena Veronika Erjavek (25 years, world number 174, 3-6, 6-3. Gabriela Ruse qualified on the painting at the WTA 250 from 'S-Hetogenbosch.
Ana Bogdan disputed the match of the first round of the WTA 125 tournament from Grado against Slovenian Veronika Erjavek (25 years old, the 174th place), an ordinary of competitions of this category or from the ITF circuit.
In their first confrontation, Erjavek started like a rifle. She managed to award her first set with 6-0, the match disputed without spectators because the land 1 from Tennis Club Grado has no stands.
However, the second act was significantly different. Ana better managed the game on a disturbing wind, enhanced her experience, after being led by 3-1. She immediately made her first break, then one more, reaching up to 5-3. The final range of the act was a true battle, Bogdan was imposing on the fourth set of set.
Decisively, Slovena started with determination, succeeding the break quickly and moving up to 5-2, with two breaks. The Romanian recovered one of them, but could not avoid defeat, 0-6, 6-3, 3-6.
Bogdan returned to competitions at the end of May, after a two -month break, with the start of qualifications for Roland Garros, where he also enrolled, but lost from round 1. Last week, “Tricolora” played another WTA 125 competition, in Bari, won by Anca Todoni. Bogdan advanced to the quarterfinals, where she was defeated by Kathinka von Deichmann in Lichtenstein (169th WTA) with 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Romance in the competition in the week of June 9 – 15
The 2025 grass season has also started, which includes three weeks of WTA tournaments on the green surface, then the third high grinding contest of the year, Wimbledon. The first WTA female competitions are those in London, the WTA 500 category, respectively 'S-Hetogenbosch, WTA 250 category.
In the second, Gabriela Ruse (27 years old, 80th place) disputed the qualifications, managing to qualify on the main panel. In the first round of the preliminaries, whose favorite 2 was, it passed 6-1, 6-2 by a compatriot, Mihaela Buzărnescu (37 years, so far without ranking, using the protected one).
In the second round, Ruse defeated Polish Katarzyna Kawa (32 years, 141st WTA), as clearly, 6-2, 6-1. She will meet her in the inaugural round on the main grid on an opponent, also from qualifications, the Dutch ISIS Louise Van Den Broek (19 years old, 496th place). It will be the first confrontation of them.
Gabriela Ruse in photo action: Imago Images
Also this week, a WTA 125 tournament is played on the grass, at Ilkley (UK), but no Romanian has registered, neither in qualifications, nor for the main table.
In addition to Grado, another WTA 125 competition is held on the slag, in Valencia (Spain). Patricia Ţig (30 Leyre Romero Gormaz (23 years old, number 133 WTA). Will be their first duel.
Another Romanian in competition these days in ITF tournaments is Irina Bara (30 years old, 247th WTA), which participates in Biarritz, on the slag, in the competition with prizes of $ 100,000. It is also inscribed for simple, and double, being favorite 1 along with Spanish Aliona Bolsova.
