Better to Be Beautiful than No.1 in the World

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Sorana Cirstea has spent a profession battling for elite standing on the WTA Tour. The 32-year-old from Romania, presently ranked 38, topped out at 21 within the WTA rankings, however she’s all the time a risk. She owns 16 top-10 wins and 42 towards the top-20.

In response to Cirstea, her former sponsor, Adidas, didn’t care a lot concerning the high quality of her wins or the precise variety of her rating. They simply wished her to be lovely.

Cirstea says that Adidas positioned extra emphasis on her appears than her rating.

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“I keep in mind, for instance, once I had a contract with Adidas, contemplating that I look pretty good for an athlete, they had been telling me that it is higher to look good and be within the high 20 than to not look that good and be No. 1,” Cirstea stated, in feedback translated by ESPN from the podcast “La Fileu.”

“When you find yourself within the high 20 you might be seen anyway, you might be there at each match, and so they had been telling me it is higher to be lovely in high 10, high 20 than much less lovely and No. 1. “In fact, you realise they’ve their very own quotas, it is a market.”

Cirstea is now sponsored by New Stability. She went 21-20 in 2022, reaching the second week on the Australian Open.