Residence : Bucharest, Romania Date of birth : 03/05/1990 Birthplace : Bucharest, Romania Height : 1.66m Weight : 46 kg Plays : Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand) Favourite Surface : Clay Win/Loss Record - Singles : 145 - 70 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles : 7 Career High Singles : 248 (December 20, 2010), current rank is 250
Personally
* Alexandra started playing tennis when she was 4 years old * Her father, Alexandru, got her on the tennis court for first time * Short right kick is her preffered shot * She likes playing offensive on court * As personal interests are swimming and listening to music
Winning those matches in the German Bundesliga didn't help Alexandra in the confidence level department. And no, she's not peaking on grass either, like Fantasy Hero was predicting
WTA Birmingham, R64:
Petra Cetkovska (CZE) d. Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) 63 64
0-8 in her last (Tour) matches and
3-15 this season
She did hold serve when she was serving to stay in the match at 3-5. Baby steps . I really don't understand why she's not doing more ITF's. I know Marseille was an epic fail, but I still think that would be a better move for her right now.
Certainly one of the matches where it's worthwhile to take a look at the stats.
Alexandra didn't hit a single DF. I don't even know when this has been the case for the last time (if this ever happened to begin with).
Anyway, it's hard not to link this fact to her playing on grass and knowing that even a weaker serve might be tricky to return on a grass court. She also hit 83% 1st serves, so obviously she was not going for broke in this regard and still won nearly 2/3 points when she was able to put in a 1st serve (also 2/3 on 2nd serves).
Does that mean that the majority of her double faults are not due to physical problems, but rather because she is going for too much in a tough situation, in a sense putting up with all these DFs to not give her opponent an easy ball to slap for a winner? If this really should be the case, then I don't think that this is the right way to go for her, especially not in times when literally serveless Players are able to break into the Top 10.
In short, she only got broken two times. On the other hand, she herself, as many players who lack experience on a grass court struggled to have an impact on the return. She had 3 BPs (all in the 1st set), but couldn't break once.
Still, I might really fance her chances to win a match at Wimbledon more than in any other slam at the moment. Cetkovska is a pretty good crass court player. Well, it will all come down to the draw.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) v Alison Riske (USA) Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) v Camila Giorgi (ITA)
Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) v Sharon Fichman (CAN)
Maria Sharapova (RUS) v Samantha Murray (GBR)
This draw is better than it looks at first glance. At least there is the realistic chance of Giorgi having an off-day. Alexandra's losses on grass were not that bad.
She shares a coach with Soler Espinosa right now. He is Andreu Guilera. They are working together since Katowice I guess. Silvia was having a bad season too, but she has improved her results recently. Let's hope Alexandra can do the same.
Thanks for the info. WTA listed her as being coachless for quite a while now which made me conclude that she considered her latest coaching situation as provisional.
Anyway, the link to her 'official website' on her WTA profile now leads me to a newsblog in gibberish. Is there a chance that she gets money by including fake links like this one? I'm wondering because the website is indeed retrievable as alexandra-cadantu.com.
Thanks for the info Mark_LLMGP!!
I was really wondering about this for a while now, i heard she was alone and traveling with her bf at one point some time ago. Hopefully things will turn for her soon, she needs it