Romanian tennis player Sorana Cirstea on Wednesday glided into the women's singles quarterfinals of the Linz Open WTA 500 tournament in Austria, prize money EUR 1,049,083, after Hungarian Dalma Galfi withdrew in the first set, due to an abdominal injury.
It took fifth seed Cirstea, 36, ranked 29th only 21 minutes to prevail.
The Romanian had also defeated Galfi, 27, ranked 103rd in their only meet so far, 7-5 6-3, in the first round of the Hong Kong Open 2025.
Cirstea won EUR 30,435 euros and 108 WTA singles points, and in the quarterfinals she will face top seed Russian Mirra Andreeva, 18, ranked 10th, who defeated American Sloane Stephens on Wednesday, 6-4 6-2.
Compatriot Gabriela Ruse, 28, ranked 87th - who beat Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, 4-6, 6-4 6-4 - will play in the quarterfinals Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, 28, ranked 23rd.
In the doubles first round, Romanian-Latvian duo Jaqueline Cristian/Jelena Ostapenko was defeated by Austrians Julia Grabher/Sinja Kraus, 6-4 6-3, in an hour and 20 minutes.
Upper Austria Ladies Linz (clay) Wednesday's results:
Round I
Anastasia Potapova (Austria) beat Shuai Zhang (China) 6-4 6-4
[8] Anhelina Kalinina (Ukraine) beat Panna Udvardy (Hungary) 5-7 6-1 6-0
Second round
[1] Mirra Andreeva (Russia) beat Sloane Stephens (USA) 6-4 6-2
[5] Sorana Cirstea (Romania) beat Dalma Galfi (Hungary) 5-0 (walkover)
[4] Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) beat Alexandra Eala (Philippines) 6-4 7-5
Gabriela Ruse (Romania) - beat Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine) 4-6 6-4 6-4
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