Romanian tennis participant Sorana Cirstea has appealed for the return of a trophy she says was stolen from her lodge room in New York.
The 35-year-old received the third WTA singles title of her profession, and first since 2021, on the Tennis within the Land championship in Cleveland on 23 August.
“Whoever stole my Cleveland trophy from room 314 at The Fifty Sonesta please give it again,” the world quantity 57 wrote on Instagram.
“It has no materials worth, simply sentimental worth! It could be enormously appreciated! Thanks.”
Cirstea was introduced with the trophy a day earlier than the beginning of the US Open, which she went on to play in at Flushing Meadows in New York.
She misplaced within the second spherical of the singles to eleventh seed Karolina Muchova, and within the first spherical of the doubles with companion Anna Kalinskaya.
It was a disappointing end result for the pair, who received the Madrid Open on clay earlier this yr.
That was compounded by the disappearance of her trophy from the Fifty Sonesta Resort, the place Cirstea was staying in New York.
BBC Sport has contacted the lodge homeowners for remark.
