Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles 2009’

Sorana lost today 6-3, 6-2  to Samantha Stosur in the semifinals of the Los Angeles Women’s Tennis Championships. Stosur – who ended Sorana’s great French Open run this year – dominated the match and Sorana, being slightly injured from yesterday’s quarter finals didn’t put up enough of a fight. In any case, it was a very good tournament for Sorana, being only her second hard-court tournament after the clay season.

Next week, Sorana will play in another Premier event, this time in Cincinati at the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open. She is scheduled to play Meghann Schaughnessy in the first round.

In the day’s first quarterfinal, LA Women’s Tennis Championships debutante Cirstea reached her second Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles semifinal this year with a hard-fought 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 7-5 victory over No. 8 seed Agnieszka Radwanska, of Poland. Cirstea, ranked No. 28 in the world, overcame aggravation of her plantar fasciitis in her right foot in the first-set tiebreaker and avenged a 6-0, 6-1 second-round defeat to Radwanska last week in Northern California.

Next opponent for Sorana in the LA semifinals is her French Opean aquaintance.