Athlete of the Week – Tennis player Patricia Ţig
Patricia Ţig won the WTA tournament in Istanbul
Florin Orban, 15.09.2020, 13:45
Last week the
city of Istanbul in Turkey played host to a WTA tournament, where total prizes
stood at $225,000. Several players in the WTA top 100 were enrolled, including
top seeds Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, Polona Hercog of Slovenia and Caroline
Garcia of France. Romanian Patricia Ţig, number 88 in WTA standings, won the
competition.
In the first
round Patricia Ţig ousted Olga Danilovic of Serbia, 6-3, 7-5. In the second
round she knocked out the number 8th seed, Misaki Doi of Japan, 6-2,
6-0. In the quarterfinals she took on Rebecca Peterson of Sweden, seeded 2nd
in the competition, whom she defeated easily, 6-3, 6-1. In the semi-finals she
went up against Tereza Martincova of the Czech Republic, whom she also defeated
in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. In the final she played Eugénie Bouchard of Canada,
and the match was quite dramatic. The Romanian lost the first set 6-2, but won
the second one 6-1. In the decisive set the two players reached the tiebreak,
where Patricia Ţig won 7-4. For her win in Istanbul, Patricia was awarded a
$25,000-check and 280 WTA points. This achievement has also earned her the
title of Athlete of the Week on RRI.
Patricia Ţig was
born July 27, 1994 in Caransebeş. In 2009 she played in her first ITF
tournament. In 2012 she won her first ITF tournaments, and in 2015 she played
her first WTA final in Baku, where she lost at the end of three sets to
Margarita Gasparyan of Russia. She took a break in 2017 to give birth to a little
girl. She returned to the tennis court in 2019, playing a new WTA final, at the
BRD Bucharest Open, losing to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan. In August 2019 she
won the tournament in Karlsruhe, Germany, climbing to the 140th
position in WTA standings. This week she also went up another 30 spots, now
ranking 58th.
(Translated by
V. Palcu)
