{"id":617075,"date":"2026-06-02T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617075\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:58:37","slug":"andreeva-powers-past-retiring-cirstea-to-reach-last-four-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617075\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreeva powers past retiring Cirstea to reach last four – Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI feel like this year here in Paris the crowd was not, you know, really against me like [last year], so I feel like it was still easier,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I would say that if that would happen again, I feel like it would be a little bit easier for me to handle this, because I obviously already know what happened last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how I was feeling and what was pressuring me. I feel like if it would happen this year, I would know how to fix the things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third oldest woman to reach the quarterfinals \u2013 the oldest since Billie Jean King in 1980 \u2013 the 36-year-old Cirstea had already announced this would be her final season.<\/p>\n

After cracking the top-20 this year though during an impressive clay-court swing<\/a> that included a win over world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka in Rome, questions naturally arose whether she would renege on her call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel like this year here in Paris the crowd was not, you know, really against me like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}