Romanian tennis player Sorana Cirstea qualified on Tuesday evening in the second round of the American Grand Slam tournament after defeating in the inaugural round the Japanese Ayumi Morita, a player placed in the best moment of her career, occupying the 69-th WTA position this week, the best position of her career. Sorana Cirstea beat the Japanese with the score of 6-1, 6-3, after 75 minutes of play. Sorana had some problems with her serve, managing a percentage of 38% at first service, but nevertheless she clearly dominated the Japanese, managing even 5 aces, compared to only one from the opponent.

In reaching her first final of the year, Stosur nailed seven aces and won 85 percent of her first serve points.

Romanian tennis player Sorana Cirstea (world no. 28) is set to meet Australian Samantha Stosur in tonight's semifinal at Los Angeles Womens Tennis Championships after defeating the polish player Agnieszka Radwanska on Friday, score 7-6(4), 1-6, 7-5. 

In the quarterfinals, 13th-seeded Australian Samantha Stosur beat China's Zheng Jie, seeded 14th, score 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Sorana Cirstea reaches semifinals at Los Angeles Womens Tennis Championships after defeating the polish player Agnieszka Radwanska on Friday. The Romanian tennis star player beat Radwanska with the score of 7-6(4), 1-6, 7-5 in a high-class match, and is set to meet the winner of the match between the Australian Samantha Stosur (world no.19) and Chinese Jie Zheng (world no.23). For the performance of reaching the semifinals at this big American tournament, romanian player Sorana Cirstea will be recompensed with $28,750 and 200 WTA points. At this moment, Sorana Cirstea is the 28th tennis player in WTA World Rankings, but after this performance she will move up at least 5 positions.