The ongoing WTA tennis tournament
\nin Great Britain’s Birmingham is an event with 251, 750 USD in prize money. Both
\nHalep and Cirstea sustained defeats in the semi-finals. Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia defeated Simona
\nHalep, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. Sorana Cirstea sustained a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 defeat by China’s
\nShuai Zhang. Simona Halep and Sorana Cirstea both received a cheque worth
\n11,000 USD and were granted 110 WTA points. <\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Qualifiers ahead of the
\nGrand Slam tournament in Wimbledon are well underway. In 2022, the tournament does
\nnot include tennis players from Russia and Belarus. In the ladies’ competition,
\nthe Romanian Alexandra Cadan\u0163u-Ignatik defeated another Romanian, Cristina
\nDinu, 6-3, 6-1. In another match,
\nthe Romanian Gabriela Lee sustained a 2-6, 4-6 defeat by Zoe Hives of
\nAustralia. Another Romanian, Laura-Ioana Paar was defeated by US challenger Christina McHale, 2-6,
\n6-4, 6-4. Cadan\u021bu received a cheque worth 19, 000 GBP and was granted 20 WTA
\npoints. Dinu, Lee and Paar each received a cheque worth 11,000 GBP and were
\ngranted 2 WTA points. <\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In the gentlemen’s competition,
\nthe Romanian Marius Copil sustained a 4-6, 3-6 defeat by the French opponent Constant
\nLestienne. Marius Copil received a
\ncheque worth 11,000 GBP. <\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek is
\nat the top of the world women’s rankings. Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit and
\nTunisian Ons Jabeur are 2nd and 3rd-placed, respectively.
\nThe world’s top 100 tennis players include 5 other Romanians. Simona Halep is 19th-placed,
\nSorana C\u00eerstea is 36th, Irina-Camelia Begu, 43rd, Elena-Gabriela Ruse is 55th-placed,
\nwhile Jacqueline Cristian is 70th-placed. The WTA men’s classification
\nis headed by Daniil Medvedev, who is followed by Germany’s Alexander Zverev and
\nNovak Djokovic of Serbia. The best-placed
\nRomanian tennis player is Nicholas David Ionel, ranking 307th.<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
(EN) <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest from tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":120280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[42066,33980,29248,41767,30285],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-122700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-defeat","tag-players","tag-qualifiers","tag-rankings","tag-tournament"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n