{"id":303392,"date":"2023-03-30T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/30\/sorana-cirstea-upsets-aryna-sabalenka-in-wta-miami-open-quarter-finals-tennis-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:27:13","slug":"sorana-cirstea-upsets-aryna-sabalenka-in-wta-miami-open-quarter-finals-tennis-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/30\/sorana-cirstea-upsets-aryna-sabalenka-in-wta-miami-open-quarter-finals-tennis-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorana Cirstea upsets Aryna Sabalenka in WTA Miami Open quarter-finals | Tennis News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-99103451,imgsize-26982.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>MIAMI: World number two <!-- -->Aryna Sabalenka<!-- --> suffered a shock straight sets Miami Open quarter-final loss to resurgent Romanian <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sorana-cirstea\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Sorana Cirstea-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sorana-cirstea\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sorana Cirstea<\/a>, who reached her first <!-- -->WTA<!-- --> 1000 semi-final in a decade.<br \/>Cirstea, ranked 74th in the world, triumphed 6-4, 6-4 against the Australian Open champion to secure her first WTA 1000 semi-final since Toronto in 2013.<br \/>The 32-year-old is enjoying an upturn in form since taking on Swede Thomas Johansson as her coach, reaching the quarter-finals at Indian Wells and beating world number four Caroline Garcia of France in both legs of the &#8220;Sunshine Swing.&#8221;<br \/>In her first meeting with the big-serving Belarusian, Cirstea looked comfortable and composed as she broke Sabalenka&#8217;s first service game.<br \/>The 24-year-old from Minsk, who is now based in Miami, broke back to make it 4-4 but Cirstea swiftly got back in front and held to win take the opening set with her opponent looking visibly irritated and frustrated.<br \/>Again Cirstea broke on her opponent&#8217;s first serve game and then at 5-4 up, she survived two break points before a superb ace down the middle gave her match point, which she converted when Sabalenka went long.<br \/>The veteran reacted with a broad smile and a fist pump and conceded she was surprised by the victory.<br \/>&#8220;I think I am a bit speechless,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I came out hoping that it would be a really tough match. I tried to hold my ground. I&#8217;m very happy with my performance today, it is a bit unexpected to be honest.&#8221;<br \/>In the last four, Cirstea will face the winner of Wednesday&#8217;s other quarter-final between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Petra Kvitova. <\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadFBEvents = function() {\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, v, n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js',\n  );<\/script><script>if(typeof window !== 'undefined') {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadScriptsOnceAdsReady = () => {\n      var scripts = [\n      'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074',\n      'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-658129294',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/grxpushnotification_js\/minify-1,version-2.cms',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v10.0&xfbml=true',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/locateservice_js\/minify-1,version-14.cms'\n    ];\n      scripts.forEach(function(url) {\n        let script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.type=\"text\/javascript\";\n        if(!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('colombia_v2')!== -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('sdkloader')!== -1) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && (url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk') !== -1 || url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') !== -1 || url.indexOf('locateservice_js') !== -1 )) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (url.indexOf('colombia_v2')== -1 && url.indexOf('sdkloader')== -1 && url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk')== -1 && url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') == -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        }\n        script.async = true;\n        script.defer = true;\n        document.body.appendChild(script);\n      });\n    }\n  }\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/tennis\/top-stories\/sorana-cirstea-upsets-aryna-sabalenka-in-wta-miami-open-quarter-finals\/articleshow\/99103501.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MIAMI: World number two Aryna Sabalenka suffered a shock straight sets Miami Open quarter-final loss to resurgent Romanian Sorana Cirstea, who reached her first WTA 1000 semi-final in a decade.Cirstea, ranked 74th in the world, triumphed 6-4, 6-4 against the Australian Open champion to secure her first WTA 1000 semi-final since Toronto in 2013.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17264,367001,60843,30696,369917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}