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Teodora Stinga — Compact Overview
Basic Information
- Full name: Teodora Stinga
- Nationality: Romanian
- Born: 3 April 1995
- Plays: Right-handed
- Started playing tennis: Age 6
- Preferred surface: Clay
- Professional level: Primarily ITF Women's Circuit / Women's World Tennis Tour
Career Highlights
- Career-high singles ranking: World No. 879 (15 May 2017).
- Career-high doubles ranking: World No. 1075 (2018).
- Career prize money: Approximately US$9,100 in official WTA records.
- WTA singles titles: 0.
- WTA doubles titles: 0.
- ITF singles titles: 0.
- ITF doubles titles: 0.
Ranking Development
Stinga entered the lower levels of the WTA rankings while competing regularly on the ITF circuit. She reached World No. 885 during 2016 and improved to her career-high singles ranking of World No. 879 in May 2017. Her singles ranking remained around the 900–1200 range during the following seasons. Her best doubles ranking was World No. 1075.
Professional Career
Stinga's professional career has been concentrated almost entirely on the ITF circuit rather than the WTA Tour. She competed extensively at lower-level tournaments in Romania, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere, frequently progressing through qualifying into the main draw.
Her recorded professional activity was particularly concentrated between 2011 and 2018. During this period she played more than 200 singles matches, with the overwhelming majority taking place on clay courts. Her career therefore represents the demanding lower-tier professional circuit on which players compete for ranking points and opportunities to progress toward higher-level ITF and WTA tournaments.
Career Record
- Recorded singles matches: More than 200.
- Recorded singles victories: More than 100.
- Overall winning percentage: Approximately 51% during her principal competitive period.
- Clay-court matches: The overwhelming majority of her professional matches.
Playing Style
Detailed technical descriptions of Stinga's game are scarce in official sources. What can be established is that she is a right-handed player whose preferred surface is clay. Her tournament history strongly supports that preference: virtually her entire professional career was built around clay-court competition.
Her results suggest a player accustomed to extended baseline exchanges and the physical demands of clay-court tennis. More specific claims about individual strokes, serve characteristics or tactical patterns are not sufficiently documented in reliable sources.
ITF Career
Stinga competed primarily at entry-level professional ITF tournaments. She regularly had to negotiate qualifying draws before reaching main-draw competition, a characteristic feature of professional tennis outside the higher levels of the WTA Tour.
One of her stronger recorded tournament performances came at an ITF event in Turkey, where she progressed from qualifying to the quarterfinals. Her run included main-draw victories over Berfu Cengiz and former World No. 14 Eleni Daniilidou before she was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Grand Slam and WTA Tour Results
- Australian Open: No appearances.
- French Open: No appearances.
- Wimbledon: No appearances.
- US Open: No appearances.
- WTA Tour main-draw titles: None.
Stinga did not reach the ranking level required to compete regularly in WTA Tour events or Grand Slam qualifying. Her career was instead spent predominantly within the international ITF tournament structure.
Surface Performance
Clay was clearly Stinga's principal surface. Available match records from her main competitive years show more than 200 matches overall, with almost all of them played on clay. Her recorded winning percentage on clay was slightly above 50 percent.
- Preferred surface: Clay.
- Extensive experience at European clay-court ITF tournaments.
- Very limited professional competition on hard courts.
- No significant recorded grass-court career.
Strengths
- Extensive clay-court experience.
- Ability to progress through ITF qualifying draws.
- Competitive record around the 50-percent mark.
- Experience against a wide range of international ITF opponents.
- Persistence at the demanding entry levels of professional tennis.
Career Limitations
- Did not break into the WTA Top 500.
- No WTA Tour main-draw breakthrough.
- No Grand Slam appearances.
- No professional singles or doubles titles recorded by the ITF/WTA.
- Professional results were concentrated mainly at lower-level ITF tournaments.
Current Status
The WTA lists Stinga as inactive and without a current WTA ranking. Her historical ranking data show that her principal period of ranked professional competition ended after 2018. Official ITF records nevertheless preserve her career profile and tournament history.
Career Context
Unlike prominent WTA players, relatively little biographical information about Stinga has been published. Details concerning her coaches, training base, family background and life outside tennis are not reliably documented in major tennis sources. Her available record is therefore primarily statistical and tournament-based.
Her career illustrates an important but less visible part of professional tennis: players competing internationally on the ITF circuit, often moving through qualifying tournaments and lower-level events while attempting to accumulate enough ranking points to advance toward the WTA Tour.
Career Snapshot
- Romanian tennis player born in 1995.
- Right-handed player.
- Preferred surface: Clay.
- Career-high singles ranking: World No. 879.
- Career-high doubles ranking: World No. 1075.
- More than 200 recorded professional singles matches.
- More than 100 recorded singles victories.
- Career prize money of approximately US$9,100.
- Career centered primarily on ITF clay-court tournaments.
- No WTA, Grand Slam or ITF professional titles.
- Currently listed by the WTA as inactive.
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