Cirstea upsets Garcia in round one in Abu Dhabi
Sorana Cirstea edged out Caroline Garcia 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4 on Monday. She’ll face No 3 seed Maria Sakkari in the next round
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Romanian Sorana Cirstea edged out Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open at the International Tennis Centre, Zayed Sports City on Monday.
Cirstea, ranked No 26, will face No 3 seed Maria Sakkari next.
Abu Dhabi WTA 500, other first-round results (International Tennis Centre, Zayed Sports City, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Heather Watson vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Naomi Osaka vs. Danielle Collins
- Alexandra Eala vs. Magda Linette
- Xinyu Wang vs. Lin Zhu
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Linda Noskova
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Emma Raducanu
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Diane Parry
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Xiyu Wang
- Bernarda Pera vs. Ashlyn Krueger: monday
