Hello to every fan of Romanian tennis!
I'm a new member in this forum, I am Daniela so that you know :) and I'm from Romania - amazing country with many rising tennis players!
I saw that there's no subforum for Romanian players which is a shame :sad: but lots of topics for our girls... Which is really nice but I thought maybe it's also nice to make a thread where can we cheer for all the Romanian girls. I'm going to try to post some informations about Romanian girls as they come and I will also put results as much as possibly I can.
I hope you'll join me here any other Romanian people on the forum or other people who is fan of Romanian tennis :D
Greetings,
Daniela
danadruncea
Apr 24th, 2007, 09:54 PM
We don't have anyone in top 100 just now but I'm hopeful it's soon going to change!
Our top 3 in detail!
WTA105 Edina Gallovits
She's born 1984... Had her highest ranking in this month this year. She's not going to be top player in the world I think but she can do well and she is making big improvements now in the playing :)
WTA164 Raluca-Ioana Olaru
Born 1989... I really believe Raluca has a great talent and she's going to be top 20 player soon! She's had some really good results this year not least in the Fed Cup. She is just needing to now improve consistency and I think we expect alot from her.
WTA170 Simona Matei
I don't know much about this player honestly... She is high ranking 145 and she had some good wins, I don't know how high can she be.
Mădălina Gojnea: She has good wins as junior, she didn't have the same succes on WTA yet but we can still hope :)
Magda Mihalache was Romanian no. 1 for a while, I don't think she can be again because the young girls are really good but she can be better than her present rank.
Monica Niculescu was good junior, what can she do now?
SORANA! Is really talented, won her first MD match on WTA this week... I think she's up there with the best 90s girls, so we can all hope for her.
I'll write more another time when I have more time :)
danadruncea
Apr 25th, 2007, 11:49 AM
Romanian players in action this week:
Sorana CIRSTEA - through to R2 of WTA Budapest, will play Martina MULLER in R2.
Raluca-Ioana OLARU - seed 7 in ITF 50K Torrent, faces Oxana Lyubtsova (Q) in R1. They have not played before.
Magda MIHALACHE - lost Qualifying R2 Budapest to CIRSTEA.
Anda PERIANU is unseeded in 50K Sea Island. She won R1 against Vanessa HENKE (which is ranked around 20 places above her), will face Michaela PASTIKOVA or Bethanie MATTEK in R2.
Edina GALLOVITS is 2nd seed on that competition, she will play first round against qualifier Salome DEVIDZE.
Anamaria-Alexandra SERE which is ranked WTA528 had a good competition in Cagnes-sur-la-mer 100K qualifying, she won to the 2nd round but then had to retire against Aurelie VEDY. Bad luck, hopefully next time better!
It's all my informations for today but many are still in competition so I will keep updating! :D
danadruncea
Apr 25th, 2007, 05:09 PM
Raluca wins 6-3 6-2
Louis Cyphre
Apr 27th, 2007, 01:13 PM
Sorana is in the semifinal :woohoo:
Louis Cyphre
Apr 27th, 2007, 01:15 PM
Hello to every fan of Romanian tennis!
I'm a new member in this forum, I am Daniela so that you know :) and I'm from Romania - amazing country with many rising tennis players!
I saw that there's no subforum for Romanian players which is a shame :sad: but lots of topics for our girls... Which is really nice but I thought maybe it's also nice to make a thread where can we cheer for all the Romanian girls. I'm going to try to post some informations about Romanian girls as they come and I will also put results as much as possibly I can.
I hope you'll join me here any other Romanian people on the forum or other people who is fan of Romanian tennis :D
Greetings,
Daniela
:wavey:
I have the feeling that after an year there will be a lot of Romanian girls in the top100 :D Good luck to all of them and please stop beating the Bulgarian girls in the junior tournaments :lol:
TheBoiledEgg
Apr 27th, 2007, 01:57 PM
Hi and welcome Daniela ;)
remembers the days of Dragomir and Spirlea not to mention Catalina Cristea.
its a good time for Romanian tennis and there's a few others on the way in juniors also ;)
Petkorazzi
Apr 27th, 2007, 04:22 PM
Mersi si Succes! O sa-ti placa la WTAWORLD, e naspa! Inscrie-te La niste Jocuri, unii sunt CHIAR tari ;)
danadruncea
Apr 27th, 2007, 06:44 PM
Great week for our girls so far!!!! :)
Sorana is in Budapest SF winning against Daniilidou her QF today :yeah:
Raluca is in SF also in Torrent 50K, she beat y'day Marta Marrero and today Iekaterina Makarova.
And we must not forget either the 2 Romanians who are this week in USA, Edina Gallovits and Anda Perianu who both reached QF... I think QF are played today later.
Such a good week for Romanian tennis, I hope they can all continue to inspire each other to go up and up :bounce:
danadruncea
Apr 27th, 2007, 06:46 PM
:wavey:
I have the feeling that after an year there will be a lot of Romanian girls in the top100 :D Good luck to all of them and please stop beating the Bulgarian girls in the junior tournaments :lol:
I can see Gallovits coming back to top-100 and I hope Sorana and Raluca will be there soon. Madalina Gojnea, well, we will see. I hope the success of her younger compatriots can make her hungry for more successes.
Highlandman
Apr 28th, 2007, 10:36 AM
Edina has also an own thread :wavey: I say welcome to all supporters:p
I'M A VERY,VERY BIG FAN OF EDINA :rocker2: :rocker2: :rocker2:
Louis Cyphre
Apr 28th, 2007, 01:26 PM
Sorana is in the final :woohoo:
I hope it will be something like "First WTA tournament,first WTA title :devil: "
BTW I think its time for Romanian Sub-Forums ;)
jarkko
Apr 28th, 2007, 01:52 PM
I like very much Monica Niculescu and Sorana Cirstea. I support them :angel: :) Monica is now playing qualification match against Julia Goerges form Germany in Wasrsaw :bounce:
2:6 6:3 1:0 (with break :))
Zoltan83
Apr 28th, 2007, 07:10 PM
:wavey: Welcome Daniela!
Nice idea to create this thread.
And it seems that romanian girls are doing well recently :D
Emina.
Apr 28th, 2007, 07:12 PM
Romanian Tennis :rocker2:
Derek.
Apr 28th, 2007, 11:41 PM
Romanian tennis is rising fastly. :D
Both Raluca and Sorana have threads in this forum as well. :)
danadruncea
May 15th, 2007, 11:16 PM
Well, it was a mixed day for our two new queens of tennis today. Raluca had a very good win, 7-5 6-4 over top 100 Russian Alla Kudriatseva which is 2 years her senior and higher ranked. Very good victory and it will bring her good ranking points! Unfortunately though Sorana had a bad loss to Neha Uberoi in the same tournament (Fes WTA) which was unexpected being as Uberoi was a lucky loser and lost quite easily to Raluca on the last round of qualification... Raluca seems to be much the more consistent of the two just now and her ranking is reflecting that...
Meanwhile, with the other players...
Great 2 weeks for 15 year old Simona Halep! She won two ITF tournaments in Bucuresti without any difficulties and she gains her first WTA ranking inside the top 900. She definitely seems to be a one to watch on the future! I've seen some photos of her and she is very physically in good shape for such a young player, muscle and so on. For sure it seems like it would give her an edge over her rivals, so often we saw good Romanian juniors not advance in senior competition because they are not physically fit enough to make the transition (Niculescu and Gojnea are two I think of straight away)
Madalina Gojnea lost R1 of 75K Zagreb challenger to Iekaterina Ivanova... Not unexpected because Ivanova is ranked above her by around 40 places, but she really had no problems to beat Madalina and I find it disappointing that it seems Madi couldn't even push her, this was not such a hard first round as she could have had. Madi was such a good junior but she just can't step out and her time is running shorter... Something needs to be changed and to me it seems as though she would need a different coach because she is too talented to stay at 200.
Monica Niculescu lost straight sets to Yvonne Meusberger in the same tourney, but Yvonne was 3rd seed so that always looked to be a tough match for her.
Monica had a better week last week at 75K in Lebanon:
$75,000 Jounieh Lebanon
C75 07 May 2007 to 12 May 2007 Entry : DA Clay (O)
32 W Nina BRATCHIKOVA (RUS) 6-0 6-1
16 W Joanna SAKOWICZ (POL) 3-6 6-4 7-6(4)
QF L Laura POUS-TIO (ESP) 2-6 6-3 2-6
Two good wins and a good performance against Pous-Tio who is a good claycourter.
Madi also reached QF, had a very good win over Nagy but then lost to a Slovak player ranked almost 100 below her...
Anda Perianu had a much better week at 50K Sea Island:
$50,000 Sea Island, GA USA
C50 24 Apr 2007 to 29 Apr 2007 Entry : DA Clay (O)
32 W Vanessa HENKE (GER) 4-6 6-2 7-6(4)
16 W Bethanie MATTEK (USA) 6-2 6-4
QF W Angelika BACHMANN (GER) 4-6 6-4 6-4
SF W Alla KUDRYAVTSEVA (RUS) 6-2 7-5
FR L Julie DITTY (USA) 3-6 2-6
Good wins against Kudryavtseva Mattek and Henke :yeah:
Unforunately not a lot of rises for our girls, which is disappointing as clay is a favorite surface for most of them.
danadruncea
May 22nd, 2007, 06:14 PM
Raluca rises to closer top 100 after her SF in Fes!
Many Romanian girls will play qualies on RG this week, I'll keep an update on their progress for anyone that is interested!
If anyone wanna post on this thread, please be welcome!
56 - Edina Gallovits
68 - Ioana Raluca Olaru
90 - Sorana Cirstea
122 - Monica Niculescu
180 - Anda Perianu
193 - Agnes Szatmari
235 - Liana Ungur
254 - Magda Mihalache
256 - Alexandra Dulgheru
377 - Madalina Gojnea
396 - Mihaela Buzarnescu
440 - Alexandra Cadantu
444 - Diana Enache
494 - Cristina Mitu
541 - Laura Ioana Andrei
572 - Simona Halep
597 - Andreea Vaideanu
618 - Anamaria Sere
639 - Irina Begu
647 - Diana Gae
719 - Ionela-Andreea Iova
739 - Antonia Xenia Tout
784 - Elora Dabija
786 - Ioana Gaspar
790 - Elena Bogdan
842 - Alexandra Damaschin
846 - Camelia Hristea
856 - Patricia Chirea
858 - Ana Bogdan
924 - Beatris Simion
962 - Alexandra Popa
962 - Gabriela Niculescu
962 - Oana Stanica
975 - Raluca Ciulei
1051 - Ioana Ivan
1051 - Veronica Popovici
1051 - Alice Radu
strastib
May 18th, 2008, 06:43 PM
Hey guys, this week it is the WTA Strasbourg , and two romanian girls were playing in the quali, Buzarnescu& Mihalache. Both played well but unfortunately didn't manage to win thier first match.
After Magda's matche I went close to her, I spoke to her in romanian please, ( because I lived there 3 years and I speak aa bit ^^) , so I ask her to do a photo with my sister and she agreed ! She was very nice !
Here is the pic : http://nsa01.casimages.com/img/2008/05/18/0805180844133340821.jpg (http://www.casimages.com)
:)
bestcormo
May 18th, 2008, 07:10 PM
:yeah:
in Strasbourg are also playing Edina Gallovits and Raluca Olaru.. maybe you can 'catch' them too.. :)
Shvedbarilescu
May 18th, 2008, 09:44 PM
Hey guys, this week it is the WTA Strasbourg , and two romanian girls were playing in the quali, Buzarnescu& Mihalache. Both played well but unfortunately didn't manage to win thier first match.
After Magda's matche I went close to her, I spoke to her in romanian please, ( because I lived there 3 years and I speak aa bit ^^) , so I ask her to do a photo with my sister and she agreed ! She was very nice !
Here is the pic : http://nsa01.casimages.com/img/2008/05/18/0805180844133340821.jpg (http://www.casimages.com)
:)
Lovely lovely picture. Magda doesn't get alot of attention compared to the Romanians in the top 100 and some of the young ones coming up but personally I think Magda is every bit as stunningly lovely as Raluca and Sorana. She oozes personality too. :inlove:
I just checked the rankings, and there are so many Romanians:eek:. Most of them were born after 1988:eek:. The Romanians are definetely the next Russians :rocker2:
Dorien.
Mar 13th, 2009, 09:40 PM
Liana-Gabriela Ungur :hearts: in the semies of Rome-Real ($10.000):) :)
Sherbi
May 20th, 2009, 07:16 PM
What a week for the Romanian tennis: Niculescu, Olaru, Dulgheru, Szatmari qualified for WTA tournaments, Niculescu then beats Groenfeld and Beygelzimer to go to QF in Stratsbourg, Olaru and Dulgheru (WTA 200!) qualify to QF also, Dulgheru by beating Errani WTA 36!, Halep and Begu win their first round matches in RG qualifying! I would like this to continue! Dont' wake me up!!!!
hellas719
Jul 22nd, 2009, 09:45 PM
14 of the 16 girls in the second round at $10,000 Bucharest III this week are Romanians :eek::speakles::bowdown:
thadeuss
Apr 18th, 2010, 08:43 AM
http://www.opentenis.ro/stiri/turneul-de-tenis-ruxandra-dragomir.html
Bad news 100K GDF Suez Romania was canceled this year because of financial difficulties of the main sponsor (GDF Suez). The tournament was suposed to be a WTA 220k event this year but insead they can't even hold a 100k event:o
But there will be a 75k tournement in July 24 - August 1 ;) called "Turneul Ruxandra Dragomir". All the expenses for this tournement will come from Ruxandra's pocket.
Shvedbarilescu
May 17th, 2010, 08:19 PM
http://www.opentenis.ro/stiri/turneul-de-tenis-ruxandra-dragomir.html
Bad news 100K GDF Suez Romania was canceled this year because financial difficulties of the main sponsor (GDF Suez). The tournament was suposed to be a WTA 220k event this year but insead they can't even hold a 100k event:o
But there will be a 75k tournement in July 24 - August 1 ;) called "Turneul Ruxandra Dragomir". All the expenses for this tournement will come from Ruxandra's pocket.
Ruxandra :bowdown: :inlove: :worship:
thadeuss
May 25th, 2011, 07:31 AM
ITF events in Romania (2011)
http://oi53.tinypic.com/2din3ar.jpg
thadeuss
Oct 27th, 2011, 12:43 PM
Irina Spîrlea is no longer the FedCup captain.:rolleyes:
Curcubeu
Oct 27th, 2011, 05:14 PM
Irina Spîrlea is no longer the FedCup captain.:rolleyes:
And Pavel stopped coaching the Davis Cup team! :happy:
Considering the general inability of Romania's tennis federation, I'm surprised that we have so many up and coming women's player! :lol:
In soccer for example, the grievances of our national federation are clearly visible on the performances of our team... :facepalm:
Louis Cyphre
Nov 9th, 2011, 07:15 AM
:wavey:
Can someone tell me 2-3 of the biggest and most visited romanian website, dedicated only to tennis? Thanx :)
Curcubeu
Nov 9th, 2011, 12:39 PM
The only one I use frequently is the tennis section of prosport: :)
http://www.prosport.ro/alte-sporturi/tenis/
thadeuss
Nov 9th, 2011, 12:52 PM
hey Louis, there aren't big websites dedicated only to tennis. The biggest sport newspappers have a section dadicated only to tennis and they are the most visited. Anyway I'll make a list of all romanian websites that I know dedicated entirely to tennis or have a section dedicated to tennis
1. The Romanian Tennis Federation
http://www.frt.ro/ro/
2. Sport newspappers & televisions with dedicated sections
http://www.prosport.ro/alte-sporturi/tenis/
http://www.digisport.ro/tenis
http://www.gsp.ro/sporturi/tenis-118.html
http://www.onlinesport.ro/tenis/
http://www.realitatea.net/tenis.html
http://www.dolce-sport.ro/sporturi/tenis/
http://www.sport.ro/tenis
3. Tennis magazines
http://www.tenis-total.ro/
http://www.tenispartener.ro/ro/
4. Websites dedicated only to tennis (are kinda small)
http://www.opentenis.ro/
This blog belongs to a federal coach and you can find lots of infos mostly about romanian juniors
http://www.coachcorner.ro/
Curcubeu
Nov 9th, 2011, 12:54 PM
I even don't know most of them! :hysteric:
thadeuss
Nov 9th, 2011, 01:06 PM
Don't worry you're not missing anything:lol:
codrutc
Nov 9th, 2011, 07:26 PM
I check tenisromania quite often. I really liked what I've seen on Coach's Corner, very good site. Thanks.
Louis Cyphre
Nov 13th, 2011, 08:33 AM
Thanx for the info :)
Curcubeu
Nov 18th, 2011, 03:29 PM
Ciprian Porumb is the new Romanian Davis Cup coach
The girls' Fed Cup team will be led by Sever Dron from now on. :)
"Following the Board meeting on Thursday FRT was decided that corn is the new captain Ciprian nejucător Davis Cup team and will handle Sever Dron Fed Cup team. Ciprian corn, which is a member of the Executive Board, abstained from voting because he could not vote himself, while Dron was elected unanimously, "said Ruxandra Dragomir, who participated Friday in the second event of the 'Tennis 10" initiated by the FRT, held at School no. 45 in Bucharest.
Ruxandra Dragomir said Ciprian corn is suitable for this position. "Ciprian Maize deserves this position was a component of the Davis Cup team and has its own club, he runs very well. He will be available for Davis Cup team, where we invested a lot and best man for Romanian tennis to be promoted more, but also supported. Every player is obliged to come at the request of captain. A tennis player playing for Romania and for no particular man, "said Dragomir.
In the case of Sever Dron experience that mattered has FRT chairman. "It's a right person, with great experience, has trained top players and his experience will bring added value to the team, which is already very soluidă" Dragomir completed.
Board of the Romanian Tennis Federation decided on 20 October, the positions of captain Davis Cup team, owned by Andrew Paul, and the Fed Cup team captain, which was occupied by Irina scrounge to become vacant .
In September, Romania's Davis Cup team lost to the Czech Republic to maintain the dam in World Group, was defeated by a score of 5-0. However, Romania's team failed in early February, the qualification in the dam for the second World Group Federation Cup after he ranked second in Group D of the Third Division.
thadeuss
Dec 1st, 2011, 04:03 PM
Made some statistics for this year: how many finals romanian girls played. If at WTA level the girls lost all 4 finals at ITF level things were better, especially in bigger events.