Latent heat: Sorana Cirstea

1990-born Romanian Sorana Cirstea is showing a great progression in the last few years and is already one of the youngest players in WTA Top 50. In 2007 she made her breakthrough climbing from #348 to #106 in the WTA ranking, reaching the semifinals at Bali and reaching her first WTA final at Budapest. This season she has kept climbing on the rankings, combining very solid and regular results in WTA Tour with a few succesful appareances on big ITF tournaments, reaching the final in Bucharest, Cuneo and Athens. And now she has highlighted her season with her first WTA tile in Tashkent and her entry into WTA Top 40, reaching a career-high ranking at #39.


With a very varied gamestyle, she performs well in any surface and has got good results on hard, clay and even grass. She's got all it takes to become a big tennis star, including the looks, with a slight resemblance to Ana Ivanovic.