Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Sunday, 31 May 2026, 09:25 / Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2026 09:25
Sorana Cîrstea (36 years old, 18 WTA) is playing today at noon in the round of 16 of the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, Roland Garros, against the Chinese Xiyu Wang (25 years old, #148 WTA). The match will start at 12:00, will be broadcast in liveTEXT format on GSP.ro and live on Eurosport 2 and HBO Max.
The duel between Cîrstea and Wang was scheduled by the organizers for the first day of Sunday, the 8th of the competition, on the second largest court in the Roland Garros complex, the Suzanne-Lenglen arena.
Qualifying for the quarter-finals on clay in Paris would mean Sorana equaling her career-best performance at the French Open, as she did at the start of her career as a youngster in 2009.
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Sorana Cîrstea, our only representative left in the competition, has had a dream week at the tournament in the capital of France so far.
She started with a clear success, score 6-3, 6-1 in front of the young Ksenia Efremova, and then, in the second round, she had no emotions even in the match with Eva Lys, against whom she won 11 games in a row.
The excellent form continued in round 3, where he played perfectly, winning with a double 6-0 in the game against Solana Sierra.
On the other side, her opponent in the round of 16, Xiyu Wang, produced a surprise in the previous round, when she defeated Yuliia Starodubtseva (26 years old, #55 WTA), score 6-3, 7-5. Earlier, Starodubtseva had also pulled off a huge result, knocking out No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina.
So far, in the circuit, Sorana and Xiyu Wang have met only once, in 2020, at the Shenzhen (China) hard court tournament, when the home favorite prevailed in three sets, score 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.
If she passes today's match, from the round of 16, Sorana will beat the winner of the duel Mirra Andreeva (8 WTA) – Jil Teichmann (170 WTA) in the quarter-finals.
