Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 09:35 / Updated on Wednesday, 29 October 2025 09:50
Sorana Cîrstea (35 years old, 45 WTA) is NOW playing against Australian Ajla Tomljanovic (32 years old, 86 WTA), in the round of 16 of the Hong Kong tournament. The game started at 09:35, it is liveTEXT on GSP.ro and televised by Digi Sport 2.
On Tuesday, the athlete from Romania defeated Dalma Galfi (27 years old, 96 WTA) in the first round, score 7-5, 6-3, after a game that was interrupted for several minutes due to rain.
LIVE » Sorana Cîrstea – Ajla Tomljanovic 3-2
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3-2. Easy game for Sorana, who is doing her job up to this point.
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2-2. Balanced start of the match.
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2-1. Lightning game! Sorana wins without losing a single point.
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1-1. The player from Australia wins her serve.
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1-0. First game without emotions for Cîrstea.
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Start match in Hong Kong. Serve Sorana.
Sorana is the clear favorite before the game in Hong Kong. The athlete from Romania has a solid 2025 season. Her overall record is 29 wins and 19 losses.
On hard court, Cîrstea has a very good track record: 26 wins and 15 losses. He has a title won in 2025, in Cleveland, on hard.
The two athletes have met four times before, and Tomljanovic won three of the confrontations. Last time, in the Bad Homburg qualifiers, the athlete from Australia beat Sorana in two sets, score 6-2, 6-3.
Tomljanovic is coming back from a left knee injury. This issue delayed her 2025 season. In 2024 she won a WTA 125 title in Hong Kong.
The Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open, the trade name of the competition, is a WTA250 category tournament, won in the previous two years by Diana Shnaider and Leylah Fernandez respectively.
Sorana is the only player from Romania on the main draw.
