When Sorana Cîrstea plays in the round of 16 at Roland Garros

Our only representative left in the competition on the Parisian clay played a sensational match on Friday, in the third round, score 6-0, 6-0 against Solana Sierra (21 years old, 68 WTA), and on Sunday she will fight for a place in the quarter-finals of the competition with the Chinese Xiu Wang (25 years old, #148 WTA), who also on Friday passed Yuliia Starodubtseva (26 years old, #55 WTA), score 6-3, 7-5, producing the surprise.

The match between Sorana Cîrstea and Xiyu Wang was scheduled by the organizers for Sunday, on the Suzanne-Lenglen arena, the second largest in the Roland Garros complex. The duel between the two will open the day with number 8, from 11:00 local time, 12:00 Romanian time.

Sorana Cîrstea opens Sunday at Roland Garros

After last week's exhilarating results, Sorana can match her best performance at the tournament in the French capital, a quarter-final, as she did at the start of her career as a youngster in 2009.

If she gets past Wang, in the first match of Sunday at the Suzanne-Lenglen arena, Sorana will beat the winner of the duel Mirra Andreeva (8 WTA) – Jil Teichmann (170 WTA) in the quarterfinals. There are other important names on the lower half of the table, led by Iga Swiatek, Elina Svitolina or Marta Kostyuk.

Sunday's schedule at the Philippe Chatrier arena:

• Marta Kostyuk – Iga Swiatek, from 12:00;

• Elina Svitolina – Belinda Bencic, not before 13:30;

• Jesper De Jong – Alexander Zverev, not before 16:30;

• Casper Ruud – Joao Fonseca, not before 21:15.

Sunday's schedule at the Suzanne-Lenglen arena:

• Sorana Cîrstea – Xiyu Wang, from 12:00 p.m.;

• Rafael Jodar – Pablo Carreno Busta, not before 13:30;

• Mirra Andreeva – Jil Teichmann, not before 15:30;

• Jakub Mensik – Andrey Rublev, not before 17:00