Live Sorana Cîrstea – Ann Li, the final of Cleveland

Live »Sorana Cîrstea-Ann Li 6-2, 3-2

Set 2

• Cîrstea – li 3-2. Li no longer wrong at work and is approaching

• Cîrstea – Li 3-1. Sorana scrolls to the trophy. He wins his service and comes off. It only has three games until victory

• Cîrstea – Li 2-1. Break for the Romanian, faster than in the first set

• Cîrstea – Li 1-1. Sorana doesn't make mistakes on her own service and equals

• Cîrstea – Li 0-1. Americanca stops the series of 5 consecutive games of the Romanian and begins with the second set.

Set 1

• Cîrstea – Li 6-2. Set Sorana! The Romanian plays very well and from 2-1 for the opponent makes 5 games in a row and passes its first leg

• Cîrstea – Li 5-2. Sorana makes a double break and is just a range away from winning the first set. Follow at work to close the first sleeve

• Cîrstea – li 4-2. With a few emotions, our player confirms the break and distances themselves to two games

• Cîrstea – li 3-2. Sorana makes the first break of the meeting and has the chance to break up

• Cîrstea – li 2-2. Romanca ends the game with an ace and we have equality again

• Cîrstea – li 1-2. Again advantage for the opponent who does not make mistakes on his own service

• Cîrstea – Li 1-1. Sorana equals immediately, a balanced start of the match

• Cîrstea – Li 0-1. Americanca wins its first service

To qualify in the last act of the competition Using the US Open, the fourth major tour of the year, Sorana Cîrstea needed to pass in the semifinals of Anastasia Zakharova (23 years, #100 WTA), score 6-1, 7-5, while her opponent exceeded Chinese Xinyu Wang (23 years, #37 WTA), score 6-7, 5-7.

For Sorana Cârstea this will be the seventh WTA final in her career. So far, she has two titles in the track record: in Tashkent in 2008 and Istanbul in 2021, while near the lost finals are those in Budapest (2007), Toronto (2013), Tashkent (2019) and Strasbourg (2021).

Before the final of today, the two players met once in their career, at the Melbourne Grampian Trophy tournament in 2021.

Sorana gave in to the American then in just one hour and two minutes, score 3-6, 1-6.

After today's final, For Sorana follows participation in the US Openthe last major tour of the year. There, our player will meet Sola Sierra (75 WTA). The two have not been confronted before.

Even though he came out of the top 100, Sorana Cîrstea was able to use a protected ranking to enter eight tournaments for one year. It was calculated that the average of the places occupied by the Romanian in the first three months after the injury. This was possible because Sorana was missing from the circuit for six months.

The course of Sorana Cîrstea at Cleveland

• Tour 1 (Qualifications): 6-1, 6-0 vs. Anna Frey (17 years old, #974 WTA)

• Tour 2 (Qualifications): 6-2, 6-2 vs. Rebeka Masarova (26 years old, #109 WTA)

• Tour 1: 6-4, 6-1 vs. Moyuka Uchijima (24 years old, #92 WTA)

• Optimal finals: 6-1, 6-1 vs. Jil Teichmann (28 years old, #85 WTA)

• Quarters of final: 6-4, 6-1 vs. Liudmila Samsonova (26 years old, #19 WTA)

• Semifinals: 6-1, 7-5 vs. Anastasia Zakharova (23 years old, #100 WTA)