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Sorana Cirstea Biography

2007 – Near-Top 100 season; in only second Tour main draw, runner-up at Budapest (l. to Dulko in final); was first Romanian to reach a Tour singles final since Dragomir Ilie in June 2000 (who was runner-up to Hingis at ’s-Hertogenbosch); SF at Bali (d. No.13 Schnyder en route for first Top 20 win; l. to Hantuchova); played four more Tour main draws, best result being 2r at Palermo (l. to Domínguez Lino); fell in Tour qualifying three times (incl. Wimbledon, US Open); win over Gallovits in Bali QF was 100th career singles match win; won one singles title and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit.

2008 – Breakthrough season, highlighted by first Tour singles title at Tashkent (as No.3 seed, d. No.4 seed Lisicki in final), SF at Luxembourg (as No.8 seed, d. No.3 seed Hantuchova en route; l. to top seed and eventual champion Dementieva) and four QF, at Acapulco (l. to No.7 seed Kanepi 62 46 76(6); held 2mp at 6-4 in tie-break), Fès (as No.7 seed, l. to No.2 seed and eventual champion Dulko), ’s-Hertogenbosch (as WC, d. No.6 seed Kirilenko en route; l. to top seed Dementieva) and New Haven (d. No.6 seed Pennetta en route; l. to top seed Chakvetadze); best result in other 12 Tour main draws was 3r at Charleston (d. No.3 seed Chakvetadze en route; l. to Cornet); fell 1r or 2r 11 times, incl. Grand Slam main draw debuts at Australian Open (l. to No.4 seed Ivanovic in 1r), Roland Garros (l. to Azarenka in 2r), Wimbledon (l. to No.16 seed Azarenka in 2r) and US Open (l. to No.3 seed Kuznetsova in 2r), also Olympics (l. to Peer in 3s in 1r); fell in Tour qualifying twice; had second through fifth Top 20 wins, at Charleston (No.6 Chakvetadze; first Top 10 win), ’s-Hertogenbosch (No.19 Kirilenko), New Haven (No.17 Pennetta) and Luxembourg (No.15 Hantuchova); made Top 100 debut on February 25 (after Bogotá; rose from No.107 to No.100) and Top 50 debut on September 8 (after US Open; rose from No.53 to No.45), reaching career-high No.36 on October 27; won first two Tour doubles titles at Fès (w/Pavlyuchenkova) and Luxembourg (w/Erakovic), and finished runner-up at New Haven (w/Niculescu; l. to Peschke/Raymond in final); won one doubles title on ITF Circui

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