WTA Rome: Jaqueline Cristian, spectacular return in the qualifications – One step away from the main draw

Jaqueline Cristian reached the last round of the qualifications at the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, our athlete defeating the American Hailey Baptiste in three sets, Monday, score 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.

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Jaqueline Cristian, in the last round of the WTA Rome qualifications – Two match points saved

Ranked 106th in the world, Baptiste started the match much better: she won the first set 6-4 and led 3-0 in the second set.

Jaqueline (68 WTA) came back, saved two match points at 4-5 and won the set 7-5. The Romanian was then the better player in the decider and prevailed 6-3.

To know:

• Cristian (main favorite in the qualifications) will duel for a place on the main draw with Varvara Gracheva (88 WTA). The athlete who chose to represent France clearly defeated the Italian Eleonora Alvisi (799 WTA), score 6-1, 6-1.

• Jaqueline secured a prize worth 8,030 euros and 20 points in the WTA singles ranking.

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The last champions of the Foro Italico

2023 – Elena Rybakina

2022 – Iga Swiatek

2021 – Iga Swiatek

2020 – Simona Halep

2019 – Karolina Pliskova

2018 – Elina Svitolina (final with Simona Halep)

2017 – Elina Svitolina (final with Simona Halep)

2016 – Serena Williams

2015 – Maria Sharapova etc.

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To know:

• The Italian competition founded in 1930 was won three times by a Romanian athlete: Ilie Năstase, the 1970 and 1973 editions, and Simona Halep, 2020.

• They have also contested finals: Ilie Năstase (1974, defeated by Bjorn Borg), Virginia Ruzici (1978, 1980, 1981) and Simona Halep (2017, 2018, defeated in both cases by Elina Svitolina).

WTA Rome takes place between May 7-19 on the clay in the Foro Italico complex. It has total prize money worth $5,509,771 and is part of the “WTA 1000” category. The titular champion is Kazakh Elena Rybakina.

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