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  • Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse

    Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse


    Tennis players from Romania were among the protagonists of several international competitions underway last week. Irina Begu for instance made it to the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid then jumped up to the 27th position in the world hierarchy, close to the best ranking in her career, the 22nd position she obtained back in 2016.


    Also in Madrid, Gabriela Ruse came very close to the finals of the womens double. Together with Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, Ruse had made it to the semifinals where they were outperformed 7-5, 7-6 by the top-seeded all-American pair Jessica Pegula / Coco Gauff.


    Sorana Cîrstea, also from Romania, emerged as winner of the WTA 125 tournament held in Reus, Spain, a competition with 100 thousand Euros in prize money after outperforming Elizabeth Mandlik of the USA in the finals.


    So we had a difficult task today in our attempt to designate the athlete of the week here on Radio Romania International. However, we have eventually chosen Gabriela Ruse whose performance has brought her no less than 390 WTA points, more than to Irina and Sorana, and also managed a jump of seven places in the doubles ranking currently to the 32nd position, which is the best in her career so far.


    Elena-Gabriela Ruse was born on November 6th 1997, in Bucharest. She took up tennis when she was four years old with Dinamo Bucharest Sports Club. She has so far won only one WTA tournament, the one in Hamburg in 2021.


    In the same year she made it to the finals of the Palermo tournament and is presently ranking 152nd in the world standings. She obtained her best performance in May last year, when she made it to the 51st position. She has obtained better results in doubles matches though, particularly since she has been competing together with Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine. In the first Grand Slam tournament of the year in Melbourne, the pair has made it to the semifinals.


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  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    The year’s first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open, ended last
    week in Melbourne.




    Novak Djokovic won the men’s competition, the present edition actually
    being the tenth he has won in his entire career. The Serbian player has also
    added his 22nd Grand Slam trophy equaling the record so far held by Spanish
    Rafael Nadal. The women’s competition was won by the 24-year-old Arina
    Sabalenka of Belarus, who obtained her first Grand Slam win. She presently
    comes second in the world’s ranking after Polish Iga Swiatek.






    Romania was represented only in the women’s competition where Irina Begu
    made it to the second round while Monica Niculescu reached the eighth finals
    together with Swiss Viktorija Golubic. The best performance in the
    aforementioned competition was obtained by Elena-Gabriela Ruse, who made it to
    the semifinals together with Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk. The two eventually
    conceded defeat to second-seeded Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of
    the Czech Republic who eventually emerged as winners. For the performance she
    obtained in Melbourne, Radio Romania International has designated Gabriela Ruse
    athlete of the week.






    Elena-Gabriela Ruse was born on November 6th 1997, in Bucharest.
    She took up tennis at the age of four with Dinamo Bucharest Sports club. She
    reaped only one WTA tournament in Hamburg in 2021 and made it to the finals in
    Palermo. She is currently ranking 144th in the world ranking and the
    highest position she obtained last year when she ranked 51st. In the
    doubles competition she is presently ranking 40th.




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  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    The year’s first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open, ended last
    week in Melbourne.




    Novak Djokovic won the men’s competition, the present edition actually
    being the tenth he has won in his entire career. The Serbian player has also
    added his 22nd Grand Slam trophy equaling the record so far held by Spanish
    Rafael Nadal. The women’s competition was won by the 24-year-old Arina
    Sabalenka of Belarus, who obtained her first Grand Slam win. She presently
    comes second in the world’s ranking after Polish Iga Swiatek.






    Romania was represented only in the women’s competition where Irina Begu
    made it to the second round while Monica Niculescu reached the eighth finals
    together with Swiss Viktorija Golubic. The best performance in the
    aforementioned competition was obtained by Elena-Gabriela Ruse, who made it to
    the semifinals together with Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk. The two eventually
    conceded defeat to second-seeded Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of
    the Czech Republic who eventually emerged as winners. For the performance she
    obtained in Melbourne, Radio Romania International has designated Gabriela Ruse
    athlete of the week.






    Elena-Gabriela Ruse was born on November 6th 1997, in Bucharest.
    She took up tennis at the age of four with Dinamo Bucharest Sports club. She
    reaped only one WTA tournament in Hamburg in 2021 and made it to the finals in
    Palermo. She is currently ranking 144th in the world ranking and the
    highest position she obtained last year when she ranked 51st. In the
    doubles competition she is presently ranking 40th.




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  • January 21, 2023 UPDATE

    January 21, 2023 UPDATE

    ASYLUM Romania’s immigration department on Friday registered 40 asylum applications.
    Most of these, 24, were filed by citizens from Bangladesh. The General
    Inspectorate for Immigration has also issued 394 permits for those who applied
    for temporary protection, out of which 388 for Ukrainian nationals. Last year 4,398
    Ukrainian citizens applied for asylum in Romania and they benefit from all the
    rights stipulated in the national legislation. The total number of Ukrainians
    who entered Romania since the beginning of the invasion is around 3.5 million.
    Almost 29% of the accommodation facilities for these refugees have been
    occupied.










    DAY
    The Day celebrating the Union of the Romanian Principalities will be marked by
    the representations of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau, Rome,
    Warsaw, Venice, Istanbul and Vienna. The Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau
    stages a scientific event devoted to 164 years since the Union of the Romanian
    Principalities – Moldova and Wallachia. The Romanian Institute of Culture and
    Humanistic Research in Venice is staging a conference meant to emphasize the
    cordial Romanian-Italian relations during the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866)
    and the symmetric destiny of the two peoples in the process of completing their
    national unity. The Academia di Romania in Rome is also celebrating the Union
    day with a film screening about the portrait of Romanian ruler Alexandru Ioan
    Cuza made by photographer Carol Popp of Szathmari. The Romanian Cultural
    Institute in Warsaw will be screening on the Youtube platform a film with
    Polish subtitles entitled ‘The 1859 Union of the Romanian Principalities’
    directed by Radu Gaina. The Romanian Cultural institutes in Istanbul and Vienna
    are also screening films about the aforementioned union and the personality of
    ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza.










    FAIR Romania boasts a national stand at the
    International travel Fair taking place in Madrid until Sunday. The stand has
    been developed by the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism jointly with
    several field associations and is promoting cultural trips, rural tourism and
    city-break packages. Among other things, the Romanian programme also includes
    meetings with relevant players from the public and private tourist sector with
    the view to introducing Romania’s touristic potential to Spain. At the same
    time, the fair is a good opportunity of promoting the city of Timisoara as
    European Capital of Culture in 2023.








    TENNIS Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse and her Ukrainian partner
    Marta Kostyuc have qualified for the round of 16 of the women’s doubles in
    Australian Open after their 3-6, 7-6, 6-0 win against Nicole Martinez of the
    USA and Ellen Perez of Australia in Melbourne on Saturday. Ruse and Kostyuk
    will be next taking on the winners of the game pitching the Czechs Miriam
    Kolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova to Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil and Shuai
    Zhang of China. Also in the round of 16, the
    Romanian-Swiss pair made up of Monica Niculescu and Viktorija Golubic
    will be taking either on the fourth-seeded pair made up of Storm Hunter of Australia
    and Elise Mertens of Belgium or Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic
    of France.






    AID
    The European Commission has approved a 44 million euro assistance scheme for
    the cattle breeders in Romania. The government in Bucharest has proposed this
    support scheme against the backdrop of the war Russia is presently waging on
    Ukraine. The aforementioned scheme consists of direct grants aimed at
    offsetting the effects of the latest price hikes in energy, fuel and fodder and
    helping the farmers to overcome the financial difficulties caused by the
    present geo-political crisis. The aid, which doesn’t exceed 250 thousand euro
    per farmer, will be granted until December 31st this year.










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