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The TWA 125 BCR Iasi Open is the most important tennis competition scheduled in eastern Romania. The event took place last week
\nand had 100 thousand Euro in prize money. Among the seeded competitors were
\nfour of the world’s top 100 women tennis players. Irina Begu was top-seeded. Second-seeded
\nwas the winner of the Iasi tournament’s 2022 edition, Ana Bogdan. <\/p>\n
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Begu and Bogdan were pitted against one another
\nin the final which Ana Bogdan won, 6-2, 6-3, this past Sunday. Reason enough
\nfor Radio Romania International to designate Ana Bogdan the Athlete of the
\nweek. <\/p>\n
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Ana had a rather unassuming debut in the Iasi tournament. In the first
\nround, it took Ana Bogdan two hours and 21 minutes of play to outclass WTA 210th-placed,
\n19-year-old Barbora Palicov\u00e1
\nof the Czech Republic. Bogdan lost the first set, 2-6, managed a hard-fought
\nwin in the second, 7-5, and had no problem winning the third set, 6-1. Ana
\nBogdan’s round-of-last-16 confrontation was not easy either. It took Ana two
\nhours and 17 minutes of play to defeat WTA 433rd, 32-year-old Conny Perrin of Switzerland, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. In the quarterfinals, Ana Bogdan was pitted against another Swiss opponent, 5th-seded in
\nIasi, WTA 131st, 22-year-old Simona Waltert. The Romanian had no problem
\ndefeating Waltert, 6-nil, 6-4. Ana Bogdan’s longest match was the semifinal
\nconfrontation against WTA 166, 26-year-old Raluka Serban, a Romanian tennis player
\ncompeting for Cyprus. It took Bogdan two hours and 42 minutes to secure 6-3,
\n4-6, 6-3 win against Serban. Then the final against Irina Begu followed.<\/p>\n
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Ana Bogdan was born on November 25th, 1992, in Sinaia. She
\nturned pro in 2007. In 2009 Ana Bogdan was second-placed according to the juniors’
\nworld rankings. Slowly but surely, Ana Bogdan climbed up the WTA rankings until
\n2018. She maintained her position around the 100th-place, yet in
\n2022 and 2023 she managed to climb up even higher. At the moment, Ana Bogdan
\nhas accomplished her career-best so far, the 39th place according to
\nthe WTA rankings. Of the Romanian tennis players Ana Bogdan is second only to
\nSorana Cirstea, who is 32nd-placed.<\/p>\n
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