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Cirstea started her 2017 season at the Shenzhen Open. She defeated Kristina
Kucova in the first round before losing to Agnieszka Radwanska in the second
round. Cirstea made it to the 4th round of
the Australian Open for the first time in her
career defeating Irina Khromacheva, 10th
seed Carla Suárez Navarro and Alison Riske
in the first three rounds. She lost to seventh
seed Garbiñe Muguruza in the fourth round.
Cirstea's next tournament was the Taiwan
Open where she was forced to retire mid
match while trailing to Risa Ozaki in the first
round. She was part of the Romanian team
at the Fed Cup against Belgium for the
World Group II 1st round match up. She lost
the 2nd rubber against Yanina Wickmayer in
a close three setter which went on for 3
hours & 22 minutes. For the doubles, she
teamed up with Monica Niculescu to give
Romania their only win at the meet up
against Belgium.
After making first round exits at the Hungarian Ladies Open and Indian Wells,
she won her first singles match in nearly two months after defeating Monica
Puig in the first round of the Miami Open. Cirstea would later fall to Caroline
Wozniacki in the third round. She made the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid
Open where she lost to Kristina Mladenovic. She made the semifinals
of Nuremberg Cup after overcoming Yulia Putintseva's antics in the
quarterfinals. At the French Open she lost to 21st seed Carla Suárez Navarro in
the second round.
Cirstea made it to the third round of Wimbledon before bowing out to Garbiñe
Muguruza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorana_C%C3%AErstea
Monica
Niculescu
(born
25
September
1987)
is
a Romanian professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings are world No.
28 in singles, reached in February 2012, and No. 15 in doubles, reached in August
2015.
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