Almost perfect for Olaru in Bad Gastein

[27 July 2009]

Raluca Olaru had a wonderful week in Bad Gastein during the WTA Event "Nurnberger Gastein Open", one of the best of her career so far. She managed to play good matches on both singles and doubles draws, advancing in the final stages.

In the singles draw  Raluca defeated Marta Domachowska ( 135 WTA, POL ) with 57, 64, 63, Sybille Bammer ( 22 WTA, AUT ) with 46, 62, 61, Magdalena Rybarikova ( 46 WTA, UKR ) with 64, 64 and in the semifinal the number one seed Alize Cornet ( 28 WTA, FRA ) with 36, 75, 63. The final was played against Andrea Petkovic ( 98 WTA, GER ), Raluca losing the encounter in straight sets with 26, 36.

After the final Raluca said: "I am really disappointed, I wanted to play a better tennis today. I had anyway a great week and I should be satisified with that."

In the doubles draw Raluca played alongside Mariya Korittseva ( UKR ) advancing through the semifinal where they lost from Malek/Petkovic with 26, 16.

After this tournament Raluca moves 12 positions up to 53 on the WTA world singles rankings.

Congratulations!

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