After the resounding victories in Rome, Sorana Cîrstea achieves a new historic performance in her career and it's not long until Roland Garros starts
The tennis player Sorana Cîrstea occupies the best place of her career, 18, in the world ranking of professional tennis players (WTA), published on Monday, writes Agerpres.
Cîrstea managed to jump 9 positions compared to the hierarchy two weeks ago, until now the best position occupied in her career was 21, in 2013. The jump takes place after Sorana managed to reach the semi-finals in Rome, passing among others the world number 1, Arina Sabalenka.
Cîrstea, 36 years old, is in the last season of his career.
Svitolina climbs to 7th place
The world podium is unchanged, with Sabalenka leading with a lead of over 1,200 points. Kazakhstan's Elena Rîbakina has almost 1,500 points more than Poland's Iga Swiatek.
Ukraine's Elina Svitolina has moved up three places to seventh. Svitolina won the Rome tournament after beating Coco Gauff.
Romania has three representatives in the top 100 in singles, apart from Sorana Cîrstea, Jaqueline Cristian, on 33 (down five places), and Gabriela Ruse, on 71 (down four positions).
The same three Romanians are in the top 100 also in doubles, Sorana Cîrstea on 79, Gabriela Ruse on 86 and Jaqueline Cristian on 93.
Cîrstea occupies a remarkable 11th place in the WTA Race ranking, which gives the participants to the Tournament of Champions at the end of the season.
WTA singles rankings
1. Arina Sabalenka (Belarus) 9,960 points
2. Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) 8,705
3. Iga Swiatek (Poland) 7,273
4. Coco Gauff (USA) 6,749
5. Jessica Pegula (USA) 6,286
6. Amanda Anisimova (USA) 5,958
7. Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 4,315
8. Mirra Andreeva (Russia) 4,181
9. Victoria Mboko (Canada) 3,395
10. Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic) 3,318
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18. Sorana Cîrstea 1985
33. Jaqueline Cristian 1,382
71. Elena-Gabriela Ruse 928
211. Irina-Camelia Begu 342
235. Miriam Bulgaru 305
286. Elena Ruxandra Bertea 243
290. Anca Todoni 237
The second Grand Slam tournament of the year starts next week, the one at Roland Garros (Paris).
