{"id":47840,"date":"2026-08-07T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/47840\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:05:12","slug":"canadian-open-2026-maya-joint-stuns-french-open-quarterfinalist-sorana-cirstea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/47840\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Open 2026: Maya Joint Stuns French Open Quarterfinalist Sorana C\u00eerstea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maya Joint scored her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/fan-zone\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/popyrin-powers-through-in-montreal\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/fan-zone\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/popyrin-powers-through-in-montreal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">highest-ranked win<\/a> of the WTA season on Thursday, ousting <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/french-open-2026-mirra-andreeva-defeats-sorana-cirstea-roland-garros-results\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/french-open-2026-mirra-andreeva-defeats-sorana-cirstea-roland-garros-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">14th-seeded<\/a> Sorana C\u00eerstea 6-4, 6-4 in Toronto to punch her ticket to the 2026 Canadian Open third round.<\/p>\n<p>How Maya Joint Overcame C\u00eerstea&#8217;s Early First-Set Lead<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C\u00eerstea opened strong at 3-1, refusing to concede a single point on serve. Joint answered back, though, sweeping five of the following six games. Serving for the set at 5-4, she erased a break point and cashed in on her seventh set-point chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second set followed a similar rhythm, just in reverse. Joint sprinted to 3-0, only to watch C\u00eerstea claw even at 3-3 after fighting off four game points. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/maya-joint-tennis-wta-ranking-serena-williams-wimbledon-2026\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"36133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">20-year-old Australian<\/a> didn&#8217;t blink. She reeled off the final three games to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The match clocked in at 93 minutes, with Joint converting five of eight break-point chances to keep her on-court time relatively short. The result matches her best ever showing at a WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/samsonova-upsets-keys-dc-open-wta-scores\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/samsonova-upsets-keys-dc-open-wta-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Liudmila Samsonova<\/a>, ranked No. 55, now awaits her in the third round, setting up a rematch of their <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/wimbledon-sets-quarterfinals-as-sabalenka-anisimova-advance\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"27444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2025 Wimbledon<\/a> meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday&#8217;s win is another marker of Joint&#8217;s turnaround on the WTA Tour. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/maya-joint-tennis-wta-ranking-serena-williams-wimbledon-2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/maya-joint-tennis-wta-ranking-serena-williams-wimbledon-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">upset of Serena Williams<\/a> at Wimbledon this year ended an 11-match losing streak. And she&#8217;s won six of nine since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maya Joint scored her highest-ranked win of the WTA season on Thursday, ousting 14th-seeded Sorana C\u00eerstea 6-4, 6-4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12949,207,408,220,863],"class_list":["post-47840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-french-open","tag-2026-canadian-open","tag-french-open","tag-maya-joint","tag-roland-garros","tag-sorana-cirstea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}