{"id":109735,"date":"2025-09-01T00:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109735\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:55:04","slug":"cirstea-says-trophy-stolen-from-nyc-hotel-room-during-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109735\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirstea says trophy stolen from NYC hotel room during US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Tennis player <a href=\"http:\/\/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<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/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.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1539207_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\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=\"http:\/\/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":"NEW YORK &#8212; Tennis player Sorana Cirstea said the trophy she received after winning a recent women&#8217;s tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-109735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}