Sorana Cîrstea announced that she will play again this year at the UniCredit Open, the WTA 250 category tournament from Iasi

In the last year that he spends in the WTA circuit, Sorana Cîrstea tick off milestone after milestone of excellence. Once again in the round of 16 at Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, she brought good news for Romanian fans who want to see her playing live and closer to them.

Just like last year, she will be present at the UniCredit Iași Open, the tournament organized at the Ciric base, which will be played between July 13-19. “I am very happy to be able to play in my country again!“, Sorana said in a video message posted on social networks.

In 2026, she had a very good run in the Moldovan tournament, advancing to the semi-finals without losing a set, with victories in Mihaela Buzărnescu, Varvara Gracheva (France) and Maria Lourdes Carle (Argentine). However, she was defeated in the last act by the Swiss Jill Teichmannthe favorite 6, 6-4, 6-3. The title went to another Romanian, Irina Begu.

Cîrstea was then ranked 166th in the WTA, coming after the problems of the previous year, when she suffered a foot operation, and after an absence in the clay tournaments in Rome and Roland Garros, being injured in the calf.

However, she played excellently in Iasi, a form she then transferred to the North American hard season, where she won her third WTA title at the time, the one in Cleveland.

Sorana Cîrstea, again at the UniCredit Iasi Open

However, the course in 2026 exceeds all expectations, with Sorana winning a trophy on home soil for the first time, at Transylvania Openin February. Moreover, he ticked off or repeated important results in most of the contests he participated in, including the semifinals from Rome and Rouentitle to double to Linz and excellent run, which can be improved, from Roland Garros, where she will play the round of 16 against the Chinese on Sunday, May 31 Xinyu Wang (25 years old, 148th place in the world).