MUMBAI: Premier sports, entertainment and media company IMG Worldwide has announced that it has signed rising Romanian tennis star, Sorana Cirstea, as a client.

Cirstea, 20, holds two WTA titles and nine ITF titles and reached the quarter finals of the 2009 French Open and the Los Angeles Open.
 
Cirstea will be managed by Max Eisenbud and Ben Crandell. IMG senior VP Max Eisenbud says, "We are very pleased to have Sorana Cirstea as an IMG client. We believe Sorana has all the makings of a future Top 10 player. In addition to her outstanding tennis talents, her striking beauty, relaxed outgoing personality and intelligence gives her the opportunity to transcend tennis on a global basis."

IMG Tennis head of global Fernando Soler says, "Sorana is one of the young sensations on the tennis scene today with enormous potential and we are thrilled she has chosen IMG to represent her. She clearly represents the next generation of tennis superstars who will be able to compete successfully on the world tennis stage."
 
Following a successful junior career during which she was ranked number one on the Under 14 world rankings list in 2003, she won the 2005 German Junior Open (Grade 1), was a finalist in the 2006 Trofeo Bonfiglio, as well as the year-ending ITF Grade 1 juniors tournaments Eddie Herr International and Yucatan World Cup in 2005 and 2006, and in the Optus Nottinghill International in 2006.

In addition, she also had a junior doubles runner-up finish at 2007 Roland Garros. Sorana began her professional career in 2006.
 
In April 2007, she shocked tennis fans by coming out of relative obscurity to make the final of the Budapest Grand Prix as a qualifier, becoming the first Romanian player to reach a tour final since Ruxandra Dragomir in 2000. In 2008 in Tashkent, she won her first WTA tour title by defeating Sabine Lisicki in the final.