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A posh tennis tournament in Cluj-Napoca
Florin Orban, 21.12.2022, 13:45
The Transylvania Open women’s tennis tournament, held over October 10
and 16 in Cluj-Napoca, has been picked as the Best Tournament of the Year in
2022, in the WTA 250 category, according to an announcement made by the Women’s
Tennis Association. The organization of the professional women’s tennis players stated the Transylvania Open scooped the award thanks to the tennis players
who selected the circuit’s favorite competition. The vote in favor was cast
because the experience they had in Cluj Napoca was rated the world’s best such experience.
The tournaments were broken down into three categories, according to the level of
the prize money up for grabs. In the WTA 1,000 category, the Indian Wells competition was the winner,
while in the WTA 500 category, top-of-the-table was the Charleston tournament.
Playing host to the Transylvania Open was Romania’s
biggest multi-purpose sports hall, with a seating capacity of 10,000 seats, the Btarena. The
tournament’s maiden edition was held in 2021. Back then Estonia’s Anne
Kontaveit outclassed the fans’ favorite, the Romanian Simona Halep. In the women’s
doubles, the Romanian-Georgian pair made of Irina Bara and Ekaterine Gorgodze
emerged as winners. In 2022, in the women’s singles, the winner was Russia’s Ana
Blinkova, while the winner in the women’s doubles were Kirsten Flipkens and Laura
Siegemund, of Belgium and Germany, respectively. Laura Siegemund spoke highly about
the tournament Romanian saying, among other things, that the Transylvania Open
was a great event, with a nice staff and with very original ideas implemented
in a bid to make sure the tennis players were having great crack as the
tournament rolled on, but also around town.
The other winners of the WTA awards included top-of-the-table
tennis player, Poland’s Iga Świątek, who was designated the Tennis player of
the Year. In the women’s doubles, top-of-the-table was the all-Czech pair made
of Barbara Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková. The Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia
was rated as the tennis player with the most significant progress, while China’s
Qinwen Zheng was the Revelation of the Year. (EN)
