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teamed up with Monica Niculescu to give Romania their only win at the meet up
against Belgium.
After making first round exits at the Hungarian Ladies Open and Indian Wells,
she won her first singles match in nearly two months after defeating Monica
Puig in the first round of the Miami Open. Cirstea would later fall to Caroline
Wozniacki in the third round. She made the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid
Open where she lost to Kristina Mladenovic. She made the semifinals
of Nuremberg Cup after overcoming Yulia Putintseva's antics in the
quarterfinals. At the French Open she lost to 21st seed Carla Suárez Navarro in
the second round.
Cirstea made it to the third round of Wimbledon before bowing out to Garbiñe
Muguruza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorana_C%C3%AErstea
Monica
Niculescu
(born
25
September
1987)
is
a Romanian professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings are world No.
28 in singles, reached in February 2012, and No. 15 in doubles, reached in August
2015.
In 2010, Monica started the season in Auckland, coming from qualifying. In the
first round, she lost to fifth seed Virginie Razzano. In doubles, she
partnered Ioana Raluca Olaru, and they defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues
and Carla Suárez Navarro. In the second round, they lost to Cara Black and Liezel
Huber.
At the Australian Open, she lost in the first round to Jelena Janković. In doubles,
she partnered Chan Yung-jan and defeated Monique Adamczak and Nicole Kriz.
The pair defeated Alla Kudryavtseva and Ekaterina Makarova in the second
round. In the third round, they lost to sixth seeds Lisa Raymond and Rennae
Stubbs.
Niculescu then played an ITF tournament in Midland, but lost in the first round
to Eleni Daniilidou.
In Memphis, she lost in the first round qualifying to Valérie Tétreault. In doubles,
she reached the semifinals along with Riza Zalameda, losing to Vania
King and Michaëlla Krajicek.
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