Boss, you won't believe it! I just found out that Sorana Cîrstea, our girl who plays tennis like she was born with a racket in her hand, qualified for the third round at Roland Garros and gave a statement that left me speechless. "My dream has always been to retire when I'm still playing well," she said on the tournament's official site. And look, bro, that's exactly what she's doing - she's not waiting for some injury to push her aside or for her ranking to drop, she wants to walk out the front door with a smile on her face. That's how it's done, not like others who retire after losing 10 matches in a row.
For real, this Sorana is something else. Now at 36, she's in the WTA top 20 and this year she won a title at home, in Cluj-Napoca - right in the city where renting a studio costs as much as an average salary, but she made us proud there. She also beat the world number 1 in Madrid, the first time in her career. When I saw the news, I remembered my boy Brian, who dreams of playing football at the National Arena. "Look, son," I told him, "that's how it's done, not with attitude and TikTok, but with hard work." Sorana says the secret is joy and lack of pressure: "Maybe the only thing is that I have more joy and I don't put so much pressure on results." That's what I do when I play matches with the guys at Fane's terrace - if I lose, I just watch a Steaua game and forget.
And her retirement is no joke. She entered 2026 with goals focused on the game, not results, and admits: "I still feel that at every practice I have things I can improve." She's fiercely competitive, even though she smiles. "I don't go on court just to have fun," she said. Same with me when I play football with the guys - I don't go just to have fun, I go to win, even if Gică the Dinamo fan gets on my nerves.
Asked about her legacy, Sorana said she wants to be remembered as a kind player who treated everyone well in the locker room and worked hard. Good for her, because not all stars are like that - some act big, with Dubai-style attitudes, and forget where they came from. So far in 2026, she has already won 29 matches in five months, almost as many as in all of 2025 (30). If she beats Solana Sierra in the third round at Roland Garros, she'll match that milestone before the end of the month. Come on, Sorana, give them another lesson and then retire like a queen - because we Romanians need examples like this, not scandals and scams!
