The Transilvania Open, considered by Faclia de Cluj to be the most important tennis match in Romaia, began at the BT Arena in Cluj today, 31 January, at 11 am. 8 singles qualifiers.
Tickets for some matches in the first two days were free. But they were sold out quickly!
Tomorrow, 1 February, there will be another 4 singles qualifiers, starting at 11 am.
And then, there will be some more free tickets for the first-round main-draw matches on the same day. (Four singles, two doubles).
At 3.30 pm will be the daytimes session, and at 6pm will be the evening session. (They hope to have at least 2 matches then.
okay, for the rest of the week, you’ll have to pay. A normal session ticket costs about 65 lei plus administrative and ticketing fees per seat. The semifinal costs 110 lei plus fees. The final costs 190 lei plus fees. A the time of writing, most seats have already been occupied.
From Monday – Wednesday, 2,3,4 February
In the main-draw, there will be 20 singles matches, 10 double matches.
The day sessions will start at 11 am and the evening sessions at 6pm. With a minimum of two matches per session (if I understand correctly).
Thursday, 5th of February.
Quarter finals.
2pm – day session. 2 singles matches and one doubles match.
6pm – evening session – two singles matches.
Friday, 6 February
Semifinal
3pm – day session, one doubles match (1 meci la dublu)
5pm, evening session, 2 doubles matches. (2 mecuri la dublu).
Saturday, 7th of February
2 pm, doubles final
4:30 pm – singles final.
It is said that the trophies (or at least one of the trophies) will be handed out by none other than Simona Halep.
List of singles competitors:
- Anna Bondar
- Lucia Bronzetti
- Jaqueline Cristian
- Sorana Cîrstea
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Olga Danilovic
- Veronika Erjavec
- Varvara Gracheva
- Kaja Juvan
- Petra Marcinko
- Oleksandra Oliynykova
- Camila Osorio
- Anastasia Potapova
- Kamilla Rakhimova
- Emma Răducanu
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse
- Antonia Ruzic
- Ella Seidel
- Mayar Sherif
- Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Donna Vekic
- Xinyu Wang
- Anastasia Zakharova