{"id":190020,"date":"2025-08-31T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190020\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:33:19","slug":"cirstea-says-trophy-stolen-from-nyc-hotel-room-during-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190020\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirstea says trophy stolen from NYC hotel room during US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 31, 2025, 02:27 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Tennis player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1774\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sorana Cirstea<\/a> said the trophy she received after winning a recent women&#8217;s tournament was stolen from her New York hotel room while she was playing in the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Cirstea pleaded for the trophy&#8217;s return late Saturday night, two days after she was eliminated from singles play in Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/46121344\/us-open-2025-women-singles-fourth-round-results-sunday-august-31-jessica-pegula-taylor-townsend-aryna-sabalenka\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1539207_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Whoever stole my Cleveland trophy from room 314 at The Fifty Sonesta please give it back!&#8221; Cirstea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/soranacirstea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote in an Instagram story<\/a>. &#8220;It has NO material value, just sentimental value. It would be [greatly] appreciated!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cirstea, a 35-year-old from Romania, won her third career singles title earlier this month in the Cleveland warmup tournament for the US Open. She went on to lose to No. 11 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3039\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karolina Muchova<\/a> in the second round in Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel said it had no comment.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 31, 2025, 02:27 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; Tennis player Sorana Cirstea said the trophy she received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-190020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115125289387954131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}