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  • February 8, 2025 UPDATE

    February 8, 2025 UPDATE

    A roundup of local and international news.

     

     

    SIE – The Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) has significantly contributed to meeting the national strategic objectives and honoring the commitments made by Romania within allied and European formats, President Klaus Iohannis said on Saturday, in his message on the 35th anniversary of SIE. According to the President, the information supplied by SIE on national security matters has been critical in making decisions for the Romanian state and in handling the increasingly complex security challenges, as part of the efforts to turn Romania into a resilient state, able to face diffuse and unpredictable challenges. Among others, Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine and its subversive hybrid actions in Romania and across Europe, the persistence of classic security risks, such as cyber, terrorism and hostile information activities, have continued to generate national and international security challenges and to shape the activity of the SIE, along with that of other institutions part of the National Security System, the President explained. He also said it is vital to strengthen inter-institutional cooperation and the one with external partners, in order to increase the Romanian state’s capacity to respond effectively to multiple security challenges, with an emphasis on hybrid threats.

     

    IMF- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in Bucharest concluded talks with representatives of the main institutions responsible for Romania’s monetary and fiscal policies. Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu told the IMF experts that the Romanian Government is committed to comply with the budget deficit of 7% of the Gross Domestic Product and to implement the reforms assumed under the Recovery and Resilience Plan. Last fall, the IMF published its latest forecast on the Romanian economy, estimating a deficit at the same level as the one set by the government, 7%, for the end of 2025. The IMF estimates are more optimistic both in terms of economic growth, 3.3%, compared to only 2.5% expected by the authorities in Bucharest, and inflation, calculated at 3.6%, below the 4.4% target set by the government.

     

    WAGES – Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Poland, from January 2015 to January 2025, had the highest average annual rate of increase in the minimum wage in the EU, Euronews reports. They reported increases between 10% and 14%, according to Eurostat data. On the other hand, the lowest average annual rate of increase in the minimum wage in the EU was in France (2.1%) and Malta (2.9%). 22 of the 27 EU member states have established a national minimum wage, the exceptions being Denmark, Italy, Austria, Finland and Sweden. The monthly minimum wage varies significantly across EU member states. Thus, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France are the countries where the minimum wage exceeds 1,500 euros per month, while Croatia, Greece, Malta, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Latvia, Hungary and Bulgaria have the lowest minimum wage, below 1,000 euros per month.

     

    INVICTUS – A team of soldiers will represent Romania at this year’s Invictus Games Vancouver and Whistler 2025. The Invictus Games is an international sports competition that was first held in 2014 and aims to raise awareness about the gratitude we owe to the wounded soldiers. This year’s event will take place from February 8-16 in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada, and will bring together over 500 competitors from 23 nations around the world. The delegation that will accompany the Romanian team to Canada will be led by the Director of the Defence Staff, Major General Valentin Brînzei.

     

    DISCONNECTION – More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have begun to disconnect from Russia’s electricity grid and join the EU’s grid. The two-day process began on Saturday morning, with residents told to charge their devices, stock up on food and water and prepare for severe weather, Reuters reports. A giant, specially built clock will count down the final seconds before the transition, at a landmark ceremony in the Lithuanian capital on Sunday, attended by EU chief Ursula von der Leyen. The three Baltic nations will then officially disconnect from the grid that has connected them to Russia since the years after World War II.

     

    TENNIS – Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse suceeded to reach the main singles draw of the WTA 1,000 tournament in Doha (Qatar) after defeating Australian Daria Saville 6-3, 6-4, on Saturday, in the final round of the qualifiers. Ruse (aged 27, 112 WTA), who in the first round defeated the American Taylor Townsend (28 years old, 81 WTA), with 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 6-2, also defeated Saville in 2022, in the first round at the US Open. Gabriela Ruse will be the only Romanian representative on the main draw of the competition in Qatar, held on February 9 to 15. In Cluj-Napoca (north-west Romania), Russian Anastasia Potapova and Italian Lucia Bronzetti qualified on Saturday for the final of the Transylvania Open (WTA 250). Potapova, the main favorite, defeated Belarusian Aleksandra Sasnovici, 6-3, 7-5 in the semifinal. In the other semifinal, Bronzetti took advantage of the withdrawal of Czech Katerina Siniakova.

     

  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    The Australian Open, the year’s first Grand Slam Tournament has reached its semifinals. Unfortunately, the last Romanian in the competition, Gabriela Ruse, failed to qualify for this stage of the competition in the women’s double. In spite of putting up a good show, she and her Ukrainian team mate Marta Kostyuk eventually conceded defeat in the quarterfinals to Su-Wei Hsieh of Taiwan and Jelena Ostapenko, of Latvia, 6-2, 5-7, 7-5. The entire match lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes. Ruse and Kostyuk walked away with a check of 142 thousand Australian dollars and 430 WTA points in the doubles ranking. The pair has already played in two Grand Slam semis, one in Melbourne, in 2023, and another one in Roland Garros, in 2024.

    In the men’s basketball Group B of EuroCup, U-BT Cluj-Napoca secured a home win against Turk Telekom Ankara, 94-81. That was the last home match for the Romanian champions. The best U-BT player was American Dennis Seeley with 31 points. After 16 legs, U-BT ranks 5th in the standings with 9 wins and 7 defeats. Next Tuesday, U-BT will be up against Lietkabelis Panevezys, in Lithuania and on February 5th they will be taking on Aris Thessaloniki in Greece. The first two sides will directly qualify for the quarterfinals and the following four will be competing in the play-offs.

    The ice hockey side Fenestela 68 Sfântu Gheorghe on Wednesday obtained a surprising result in Romania’s National Ice Hockey Championship; a 3-2 away win against the championship’s leader, ACSH Gheorgheni. The Harghita side remains in the first place with 55 points out of 26 games, followed by Corona Braşov, with 53 points out of 23 matches.

    In a top game of the 15th leg of the National League in women’s handball, Corona Braşov, secured a 33-29 win against SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea, one of Romania’s representative in the EHF European League. The second Romanian side in the continental competition, Dunărea Brăila, clinched a 30-22 victory against HC Zalau. Two sides playing for Romania in the Champions League have also obtained victories. CSM Bucharest has outperformed CSM Slatina, 41-29, while Rapid Bucharest has secured a 32-24 win against CSM Târgu Jiu. CSM Bucharest tops the ranking with 39 points, followed by Corona, with 31.

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  • January 17, 2025 UPDATE

    January 17, 2025 UPDATE

    FAIR Romania will be participating in the world’s biggest fair of bioproducts, BioFach 2025, due in Nurnberg, Germany, over February 11 and 14, the Bio-Romania Association announced on Friday. Bio-Romania is supported by the government through the Romanian Agency of Investment and Foreign Trade. According to the aforementioned association, Romania has been participating in BioFach for the past 20 years. As early as 1990, BioFach became the main meeting point of producers from the world over, offering the participants numerous network opportunities and also being an idea hub for all the main players in the field organic production.

     

    PROTESTS Thousands of police officers and employees from defence, public order and national security institutions, as well as reserve officers from all over Romania took to the streets of Bucharest on Friday. They called on the government to review an order that significantly reduced their incomes. The act scraps overtime pay and payments for days worked on weekends or public holidays. The protesters argue that the income of operational police officers will be severely affected, with decreases ranging between 200 and 400 Euros. Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu pledged on Friday that the issue of overtime pay in the field of public order would be regulated by Parliament in early February.

     

    RUSSIA The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs firmly condemns the Russian forces’ irresponsible attacks that violate all the norms of international law, and emphasizes that Russia’s illegal and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine generates risks for the entire region. The statement was made as the monitoring and surveillance systems of Romania’s Defence Ministry Friday morning noted violations of Romanian airspace, in Tulcea county, after Russian forces resumed their drone attacks on civilian targets and port infrastructure in Ukraine. ‘Respect for sovereignty, security and peace are obligations that the Russian Federation violates systematically and without provocation. The persistent aggressive actions, the illegal occupation of some of the neighboring territories and the illegal full-scale war that Russia has been waging for almost 3 years against a sovereign neighbor are a persistent and serious threat not only to Ukraine but to the entire Black Sea region and NATO’s eastern flank,’ the foreign ministry says. The Foreign Ministry and the Defence Ministry also mention that they have been informing NATO in real time about the situations caused by these attacks, and remain in permanent contact with it.

     

    FLU Flu vaccination remains the easiest, safest and most effective protection method against seasonal diseases, Romanian doctors reiterate amid increases in the number of respiratory infections. Specialists emphasize that as the percentage of the vaccinated population increased, flu viruses spread in communities decreases. A National Institute for Public Health report shows that the number of people diagnosed with respiratory infections has doubled, with almost 91,000 cases reported in the last week. There are almost 600 patients diagnosed with clinical flu and over 200 for whom lab tests have confirmed infection with the flu virus, most of them in Bucharest, Cluj, Braşov, Constanţa, Alba and Galaţi. Five more people have died from the flu, bringing the death toll since the beginning of the season up to 9.

     

    TENNIS The Romanian tennis players Gabriela Ruse and Jaqueline Cristian, in separate pairs, qualified for the second round of the women’s doubles event at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, after winning their respective matches on Friday in Melbourne. Ruse and Ukraine’s Marta Kostiuk won against the Australians Destanee Aiuava and Maddison Inglis 6-4, 7-6 (7/2), and in the second round they will face strong opponents in Elise Mertens (Belgium) and Ellen Perez (Australia), seeded 6th. Jaqueline Cristian and her Italian partner Camilla Rosatello defeated Cristina Bucşa (Spain)/Iana Sizikova (Russia) 6-2, 6-7 (2/7), 6-4. Cristian and Rosatello will next face Leylah Fernandez (Canada) and Nadia Kicenok (Ukraine), seeded 16th. In another first-round match in the women’s doubles, Monica Niculescu and Sofia Kenin (US) were defeated by Miyu Kato (Japan)/Renata Zarazua (Mexico), 6-4, 6-4. In the men’s doubles, the Romanian-Argentine pair Victor Cornea/Mariano Navone was defeated in the second round by Germany’s Kevin Krawietz/Tim Puetz, 4-6, 6-1.

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  • August 30, 2024

    August 30, 2024

    SANCTIONS Romania supports the adoption of new sanctions against Russia. At the informal meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers with their Ukrainian counterpart Dmitro Kuleba, on Thursday, the Romanian Foreign Minister, Luminita Odobescu, said that pressure has to be kept on Moscow and so has military and energy support for Ukraine. The issue of the military support for Ukraine is presently being talked upon by Defence Ministries of the EU countries. Talks are focusing on the EU operation, already underway, to train the Ukrainian soldiers to defend their country against the Russian invasion, DPA reports. A new plan of relocating some of these training operations to Ukraine will be discussed. Some of these training sessions are presently being held in Germany and Poland and the mission kicked off in November 2022. According to data released in May, 52 thousand Ukrainian troops had benefitted from this training.

     

    VISIT Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis will be paying a formal visit to Chisinau at the invitation of his Moldovan counterpart, Maia Sandu. The visit comes against the background of the two countries’ celebrating the Day of the Romanian language on August 31st. Iohannis is expected to deliver a firm message of support and encouragement for the authorities and citizens of the Republic of Moldova in their efforts to modernize and democratize the country and for the irreversible implementation of the rule of law and the European roadmap – the presidential administration has announced. The president will also be making an appeal to international partners to carry on their multidimensional assistance to the Republic of Moldova mainly in the context of the aggression war Russia is presently waging on Ukraine and all the risks entailed by this situation.

     

    VISIT Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis will be paying a formal visit to Chisinau at the invitation of his Moldovan counterpart, Maia Sandu. The visit comes against the background of the two countries’ celebrating the Day of the Romanian language on August 31st. Iohannis is expected to deliver a firm message of support and encouragement for the authorities and citizens of the Republic of Moldova in their efforts to modernize and democratize the country and for the irreversible implementation of the rule of law and the European roadmap – the presidential administration has announced. The president will also be making an appeal to international partners to carry on their multidimensional assistance to the Republic of Moldova mainly in the context of the aggression war Russia is presently waging on Ukraine and all the risks entailed by this situation.

     

    FOOTBALL Romania’s football champions FCSB have qualified for the Europa League’s groups after the one-nil victory in Bucharest on Thursday against Austrian side LASK Linz. The first game ended in a draw, one-all. Unfortunately Romania’s vice-champions CFR Cluj failed to qualify for the Conference League. The Romanians were knocked out by the Cypriotes of FC Pafos, who won the decisive play-offs game 3-0. The first game went to CFR, 1-0. FCSB will today be learning their opponents in their group.

     

    TENNIS Romanian tennis player, Gabriela Ruse, is today playing Spanish Paula Badosa in the third round of the US Open, the year’s last Grand Slam tournament. Coming straight form the qualifiers, the Romanian caused a big surprise in the competition’s second round after securing a win against Barbora Krejcikova of Czechia, winner of this year’s edition of Wimbledon. This has been Gabriela’s first qualification for the third round of a Grand Slam tournament.

     

    WEATHER And now a couple of things about the weather, which is unstable with showers and thunderstorms reported in almost the entire Romanian territory and on isolated areas on the Black Sea coast. However, the weather remains warm in the country’s western regions. The highs of the ray are ranging from 24 to 34 degrees Celsius.

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  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    The Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse on Wednesday qualified for the third round of US Open, the year’s last Grand Slam tournament

    The 122nd-seeded Romanian clinched a two set win 6-4, 7-5 in the second round against the 8th-seeded Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic. Coming from qualifiers, Ruse managed to outperform the winner of this year’s edition of the Wimbledon tournament in a match that lasted one hour and 46 minutes. We recall that Krejcikova had won all the head-to-head matches, in 2019 in Bucharest and in 2023 in Abu Dhabi. Ruse, who is at her first participation in the third round of a Grand Slam, is going to meet the WTA 29th Spanish challenger Paula Badosa. Their only H2H game in February 2022 went to Gabriela in three sets, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

    Tuesday and Wednesday saw the qualifying games for Romania’s football cup, with Dinamo Bucharest, FC Hermannstadt, Poli Iasi and FC Botosani as favourites.

    Dinamo clinched a 1-0 win against FC Voluntari, Hermannstadt defeated CSM Focşani 3-0. Poli Iaşi outperformed Concordia Chiajna 2-0, while FC Botoşani defeated CSM Alexandria, 1-0. FCU Craiova was knocked out by third-leaguer Unirea Alba Iulia in the penalty shootout and so happened to second-leaguer CSM Slatina, which was eliminated by Agricola Borcea, a group from the third football division.

    Romania will be represented by six athletes at the summer Paralympics, which kicked off in Paris on Wednesday. Alexandru Bologa and Daniel Vargoczki will compete in the judo contest for the blind. Eduard Novak and Theodor Matican will compete in the cycling contests, while Camelia Ciripan and Bobi Simion will be playing table tennis.

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  • August 27, 2024

    August 27, 2024

    WEATHER Romanian meteorologists on Tuesday issued a code yellow alert for unstable weather valid until Wednesday morning for half of the Romanian territory. Heavy downpours are expected in the center, in the mountains and some regions in the country’s east and south. Thunder and hailstorms have been forecast in isolated regions whereas the heatwave will remain in southern and western Romania, whose residents are again facing with a higher thermal discomfort index and more muggy days. The highs of the day will be ranging between 27 and 35 degrees with a noon reading in Bucharest of 34.

     

    PENSIONS As of October 1st the taxation ceiling of pensions in Romania is going to grow from 400 Euros at present to 600 Euros, Labour Minister Simona Bucura-Oprescu announced on Monday night. She said the decision was made after a new round of talks she had with Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu. So, on October 1st, taxes will account for 10% of the difference exceeding 3 thousand RON. The minister’s statement comes after the head of the government announced that he had called on the Finance Minister to conduct research and see whether a new taxation ceiling was needed after the implementation of the new legislation. The Finance Ministry is expected to conduct another research so that pensioners may not incur loses or have the food vouchers removed. We recall that pensions under 2 thousand lei are presently exempted from taxation but a 10% tax is levied on pensions exceeding this sum.

     

    INDEPENDENCE President Maia Sandu on Tuesday conveyed a message congratulating the citizens of the Republic of Moldova on the occasion of marking 33 years since the proclamation of the country’s independence. ”Moldova is our home and we choose a future of peace and prosperity. We are writing our history. Many Happy Returns, Moldova!” Sandu says quoted by Moldpres. In Bucharest, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis says that Romania will continue to offer strategic support to Moldova in all areas. ‘I congratulate the citizens of the Republic of Moldova on Independence Day! You are part of the great European family and the continuation of the present efforts will transform the EU accession into an accomplished objective, the Romanian head of state wrote on the X platform. Other high officials in Bucharest have conveyed congratulation messages on this occasion. On August 27 1991, tens of thousands took to the streets of Chisinau and called on Parliament to endorse the country’s independence, which it eventually did.

     

    TENNIS Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse has qualified for the second round of the US Open, the year’s last Grand Slam tournament after a two-setter against Julia Grabher of Austria. Ruse will be up next against Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic, this edition’s winner of the Wimbledon tournament. The other Romanian representatives in the singles contest, Ana Bogdan and Jaqueline Cristian have been knocked out in the first round after losing to Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands and 12th-seeded Daria Kasatkina of Russia, respectively.

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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse has joined the main draw of the US Open Grand Slam tournament to kick off on Monday at Flushing Meadows in New York. In the qualifiers’ last round she outperformed Alexandra Eala of the Philippines 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Gabriela has thus won 100,000 dollars and 40 WTA points, being the third Romanian on the main board of the singles contest, after those directly qualified, Ana Bogdan and Jaqueline Cristian, respectively.

    Romania’s under-23 crew of four on Thursday walked away with gold from the World Rowing Championships held in St. Catherines, Canada. Romania’s four, made up of Emanuela Ciotău, Patricia Cireș, Mariana-Laura Dumitru and Manuela-Gabriela Lungu ended the race two seconds ahead the runner up Polish crew.

    The sides representing Romania in the European football contests obtained good results on Thursday. FCSB ended in a one-all draw their away game against the Austrian eleven LASK Linz in the play-offs of the Europa League.

    The French Adil Taoui put the hosts into the lead on the 34th minute, but David Miculescu scored the equalizer in the first half’s injury time. The qualification will be decided in Bucharest next week.

    In the Conference League’s play-offs, CFR Cluj clinched a one-nil win against Cypriot side Paphos. Kosovar Meriton Korenica fired home on minute 17 and CFR managed to keep its difference in spite of being outnumbered on the pitch after Ciprian Deac had been given an early shower for a challenge at Portuguese João Correia.

    The Romanian side put up a better show than their opponent with a sturdy defence line, bold and incisive counterstrikes.

    This weekend will be seeing the football matches counting towards the seventh leg of Romania’s Superleague. Two games are taking place on Friday: Petrolul Ploiesti versus Otelul Galati and Poli Iasi versus Rapid Bucharest. On Saturday, Sepsi are up, on their own turf, against Unirea Slobozia and Dinamo is playing Universitatea Craiova in a home game. On Sunday, CFR will be up against FC Botosani and FCSB will go to Sibiu to play FC Hermannstadt. On Monday, Gloria Buzau will be playing Universitate Cluj and UTA will be up against Farul Constanta.

    Universitatea Craiova tops the table with 14 points, two more than the second side in the ranking, Universitatea Cluj.

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  • Sports Roundup

    The Romanian athlete of Kenyan origin Joan Chelimo Melly got the silver medal in the women’s half-marathon contest of the European Championships in Rome. She ended the race in one hour, 8 minutes and 55 seconds right after the winner, Norwegian Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, who beat Melly by 46 seconds. Calli Hauger-Thackery of Britain came third in one hour, 8 minutes and 58 seconds.

    Delvine Meringor, another Romanian athlete of Kenyan origin, came fourth in the race in one hour, nine minutes and 25 seconds. Romania’s both representatives are qualified for the Olympics in Paris.

    Stella Rutto, another Romanian runner of Kenyan descent, came fourth in the finals of the 3 thousand meters hurdles race, which she ended in 9 minutes, 22 seconds and 36 hundredths, a performance, which is also a personal record.

    Unfortunately Romanian hammer thrower, Bianca Ghelber, gold medalist in the latest edition of the European Championship, failed to qualify for the finals in Rome, after ranking only 20th in the preliminary groups.

    Now let’s have a look at the tennis competitions. Romanian tennis player Anca Todoni on Sunday won the most important title in her career so far at the WTA 125 tournament in Bari with 100 thousand Euros in prize money. The 19 years old athlete outperformed in the finals the Hungarian player Panna Udvardy 6-4, 6-0. The Romanian got 13,040 Euros and 125 WTA points.

    Among the other Romanian tennis performances of the week, was the qualification of Gabriela Ruse for the doubles semifinals of the tennis tournament in Roland Garros together with Ukrainian, Marta Kostiuk. The two athletes were stopped in their tracks by the all-Italian pair Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1. That was their second presence in the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament after the Australian Open in 2023.

    Romania’s minifootball side failed to win the European Championship in Sarajevo. The Romanians were outperformed by Serbia in the finals 10-9 in the penalty shootout.

    At the end of the game the score was one-all. The en-titre champions, Romania, have so far won the title six times, but lost three finals 1-4 against the Czech Republic in Kyiv şin 2018, 0-1 against Azerbaijan in 2022 and now in Sarajevo 9-10 to Serbia.

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  • Nachrichten 10.11.2023

    Nachrichten 10.11.2023

    Der rumänische Premierminister und Vorsitzende der Sozialdemokratischen Partei, Marcel Ciolacu, reist am Freitag und Samstag nach Malaga, Spanien, wo er am Kongress der Europäischen Sozialdemokraten teilnehmen wird. Laut Agerpres plant der Führer der Sozialdemokraten am Rande des SPE-Kongresses ein Treffen mit dem Vorsitzenden der SPE, Stefan Lofven, dem Fraktionsvorsitzenden der Progressiven Allianz der Sozialisten und Demokraten, Iratxe Garcia, und dem Vorsitzenden der deutschen Sozialdemokraten, Lars Klingbeil. Ebenfalls am Freitag wird der Chef der sozialliberalen Regierung in Bukarest mit der dänischen Ministerpräsidentin Mette Frederiksen zusammentreffen. Am zweiten Tag seines Besuchs in Spanien wird Marcel Ciolacu den deutschen Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz treffen.



    Der ehemalige rumänische Außenminister Bogdan Aurescu, erhielt eine Stelle als Richter am Internationalen Gerichtshof in Den Haag innerhalb der Vereinten Nationen. Es ist das erste Mal, dass ein Rumäne einen solchen Posten erhält. Es ist auch das erste Mal, dass kein russischer Kandidat gewählt wurde. Diese Premiere spiegelt das starke Engagement Rumäniens für eine regelbasierte internationale Ordnung wider, so der rumänische Präsident Klaus Iohannis. Der Außenminister von Bukarest erklärte, dass die Wahl Aurescus einen Sieg für die rumänische Diplomatie und eine Anerkennung der Professionalität und Expertise von Bogdan Aurescu darstelle. Der 50-jährige Aurescu ist Mitglied der Völkerrechtskommission der Vereinten Nationen und außenpolitischer Berater des rumänischen Präsidenten. Zwischen 2004 und 2009 war er römischer Agent am Internationalen Gerichtshof und spielte eine entscheidende Rolle in dem Verfahren zwischen Rumänien und der Ukraine über die territoriale Abgrenzung des Schwarzen Meeres, in dessen Rahmen die Ukraine ihrem Nachbarn 9.700 km² Festlandsockel und ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone zurückgab.



    Der Gouverneur der Rumänischen Nationalbank, Mugur Isărescu, legt am Freitag den vierteljährlichen Inflationsbericht vor. Die aktualisierten Prognosen bestätigen erneut die Aussicht auf einen allmählichen Rückgang der jährlichen Inflationsrate in den nächsten zwei Jahren, auf einem Pfad, der 2024 höher als zuvor angenommen, in den folgenden Quartalen jedoch etwas niedriger sein wird. So wird erwartet, dass die jährliche Inflationsrate zu Beginn des nächsten Jahres aufgrund der Erhöhung und Einführung bestimmter Steuern ansteigen und in den folgenden Quartalen allmählich sinken wird.



    41 rumänische Staatsbürger und ihre Familienangehörigen haben den Gazastreifen am Grenzübergang Rafah verlassen und befinden sich derzeit in Ägypten, nachdem der interinstitutionelle Krisenstab über die rumänische Botschaft in Kairo und das Büro des Vertreters der Rumänen in Ramallah Maßnahmen ergriffen hatte, wie das Außenministerium in Bukarest mitteilte. Sie würden in Kürze nach Rumänien zurückkehren. Das Außenministerium erinnert daran, dass eine Gruppe von 93 rumänischen Staatsbürgern und ihren Familienangehörigen am Mittwoch in Rumänien eingetroffen war. Die rumänische Diplomatie setzt den Dialog mit den israelischen und ägyptischen Behörden fort, um die Evakuierung der internationalen Bürger zu erleichtern, je nachdem, wie sich die Situation entwickelt und ob die beteiligten Parteien damit einverstanden sind.



    Der rumänische Verteidigungsminister richtete am Donnerstag eine Mitteilung an den US-Kongress über den Verkauf von 54 Abrams-Kampfpanzern, Munition und Simulatoren für Trainingszwecke an Rumänien. Die neuesten Versionen der Kampfmaschinen, die in die rumänischen Landstreitkräfte integriert werden sollen, werden in Kürze ausgeliefert. Der Wert des Vertrags wird auf rund 1,07 Milliarden US-Dollar geschätzt und entspricht der vorherigen Zustimmung des rumänischen Parlaments. Verteidigungsminister Angel Tîlvăr betonte, dass der direkte Einstieg in das Abrams-Programm für die rumänischen Landstreitkräfte, die über modernste Kampfmittel verfügen, eine große Chance darstelle, sich an die Herausforderungen des regionalen Sicherheitsumfelds anzupassen und die Stärke und das ausgezeichnete Niveau der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Rumänien und den Vereinigten Staaten, insbesondere im militärischen Bereich, zu demonstrieren.



    Gabriela Ruse trifft am Freitag im ersten Einzelspiel der rumänisch-serbischen Tennis-Damenmannschaft in Kraljevo (Serbien) auf Mia Ristic, wenn es um die Play-offs des Billie Jean King Cup geht. Am Samstag wird die Rumänin Cristian in der ersten Partie gegen Ristic spielen, während Gabriela Ruse in der zweiten Partie gegen Krunic antritt. In den direkten Begegnungen führt Serbien mit 2:1 gegen Rumänien. Das Siegerteam qualifizierte sich für die Endrunde des Wettbewerbs und verlor in der Gruppe I. Im April qualifizierte sich Rumänien durch einen 3:2-Sieg gegen Slowenien für die Endrunde.


  • 26.08.2023 (mise à jour)

    26.08.2023 (mise à jour)


    BIAS – Le plus grand
    spectacle aérien de Roumanie, le BIAS, s’est déroulé samedi à Bucarest, pour
    marquer les cents ans écoulés depuis le premier vol international de nuit opéré
    à l’époque, depuis la capitale roumaine à destination de Belgrade. Plus de 150
    pilotes et parachutistes à bord de plus de cent avions civils et militaires ont effectué des
    démonstrations aériennes. Le public a pu admirer des pilotes militaires à bord
    des avions F-16 Fighting Falcon, IAR 99 Faucon, IAR 330 PUMA, IAK 52
    C 27J Spartan et des hélicoptères EC 135. Au spectacle ont participé aussi des
    forces aériennes américaines à bord des hélicoptères Blackhawk et Apache, des
    forces canadiennes à bord d’un avion McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet, des forces
    néerlandaises à bord de deux avions F16 Fighting Falcon et des pilotes
    allemands à bord de Sikorsky CH-53 Sea
    Stallion et Tornado Pa200. La 13ème édition du BIAS a eu comme
    invité le célèbre pilote lituanien, Jurgis Kairys, multiple champion de voltige
    aérienne.


    Festival -
    L’orchestre de la Philharmonie « George Enescu » sous la baguette de
    Cristian Macelaru ouvrira dimanche, par un concert donné à la Salle du Palais
    de Bucarest, l’édition 2023 du célèbre festival international de musique
    classique George Enescu. Au programme : le Concerto pour violoncelle et
    orchestre en si mineur op.104 de Dvorak, la Rhapsodie roumaine en re majeur,
    op.11 nr.2 de Enescu, la Suite du Chevalier à la Rose op.59 de Strauss. La 26ème
    édition du Festival a pour thème « la Générosité à travers la
    musique ». Y participeront plus de 3500 musiciens et une quarantaine
    d’orchestres de 16 pays dont l’Orchestre et la Chorale Maggio Musicale Fiorentino de l’Opéra de Florence, l’Orchestre
    symphonique de Londres, l’Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse ou
    l’Orchestre Philarmonique d’Israël.




    Frontières -
    Comme chaque weekend, on attend une intensification du trafic aux frontières
    roumaines, notamment à celles avec la Bulgarie et la Hongrie. Samedi, dans
    l’ouest de la Roumanie, tous les points de passage frontalier étaient pris
    d’assaut par les voitures qui souhaitaient quitter le pays. Quant à celles qui
    voulaient arriver en Roumanie, la plupart d’entre elles ont été signalées au
    poste frontalier d’Albita, dans l’est. Par ailleurs, les camionneurs ont dû
    attendre samedi plus de 400 minutes pour passer la frontière roumaine à Galati
    et Isaccea. La Police roumaine aux frontières a annoncé mettre en place des mesures
    de contrôle supplémentaires jusqu’à atteindre la capacité maximale permise par
    l’infrastructure de chacun des postes frontière. Les représentants de la Police
    roumaine aux frontières et les autorités douanières bulgares et hongroises
    cherchent à mettre en place des mesures communes pour fluidifier le trafic.


    Pompiers -Les sapeurs-pompiers
    roumains continuent à soutenir leurs confrères européens dans leur combat
    contre les incendies de végétation. En France, ils ont lutté contre des
    incendies de forêt dans le sud-est du pays et en Grèce, ils sont intervenus
    vendredi dans les incendies qui menacent une localité à l’est.




    Canoë – Le Roumain
    Cătălin Chirilă a remporté samedi la médaille d’argent de la course de 1000
    mètres hommes aux Championnats du monde en eaux plates de canoë-kayak de Duisbourg
    en Allemagne. La compétition compte pour les JO 2024, puisque les six premiers
    classés se qualifieront directement pour Paris. Chirila était le champion en
    titre du 1000 mètres. Vendredi, il a gagné la médaille d’or de la course de 500
    mètres.




    Tennis – La
    joueuse roumaine de tennis, Gabriela Ruse, 166ème mondiale, figure au tableau
    principal du concours de simple dames de l’US Open, dernier tournoi de Grand
    Chelem de l’année qui débute lundi, à Flushing Meadows, à New York. Gabriela
    Ruse a obtenu sa qualification après une victoire contre l’Ukrainienne, Daiana
    Iastremska. Quatre autres Roumaines se sont qualifiées directement au tableau
    principal. Il s’agit de Sorana Cîrstea, Irina Begu, Ana Bogdan et Patricia Ţig.






    Météo – La vague
    de forte chaleur persistera en Roumanie dans les heures à venir. L’indice
    humidex sera élevé, tout comme l’inconfort thermique. Des averses de pluie et
    des coups de foudre et de tonnerre sont signalés dans les régions de montagne.
    Le vent soufflera légèrement sur l’ensemble du territoire et plus fort sur les
    sommets des Carpates méridionales. Les températures maximales iront de 35 à 38
    degrés. Des alertes jaune et orange à la canicule sont en viguer dimanche,
    partout en Roumanie, avec un pic de
    chaleur de 39 degrés.







  • 23.08.2023 (mise à jour)

    23.08.2023 (mise à jour)

    Russie – Evgueni Prigojine,
    le patron du groupe Wagner serait décédé dans le crash de son jet privé dans la
    région de Tver en Russie, fait savoir l’agence de presse TASS. L’agence de
    presse russe cite l’Agence fédérale de transport aérien de Russie selon
    laquelle une enquête a été déclenchée au sujet du crash d’un jet privé Embraer,
    au bord duquel se trouveraient dix personnes dont Evgueni Prigojine. L’avion se
    déplaçait de Moscou à Saint Pétersbourg. Selon les secouristes déployés sur
    place, huit corps ont été recouverts, annonce aussi RIA Novosti.




    Evgueni Prigojine était le
    patron du groupe de mercenaires Wagner, dont le rôle a été décisif dans la
    prise de la ville ukrainienne de Bakhmut. Après un coup avorté en Russie il y a
    deux mois, le groupe Wagner a trouvé refuge au Bélarus, tout en continuant ses
    opérations en Afrique. D’ailleurs, lundi Progojine s’était affiché en Afrique,
    selon un e vidéo diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux.


    Ukraine – La cheffe de la
    diplomatie roumaine, Luminita Odobescu, accuse la Russie de viser
    volontairement l’infrastructure essentielle aux exportations des céréales afin
    de faire du mal aux citoyens ukrainiens. Cette réaction survient après la plus
    récente attaque perpétrée par Moscou sur le Danube. L’attaque contre le port
    d’Ismail est un crime de guerre, a affirmé la responsable de Bucarest sur les
    réseaux sociaux. Elle s’est dite terrifée par les bombardements continuels de
    la Russie contre le port mentionné, situé près de la frontière roumaine.
    270.000 tonnes de céréales ont été détruits en un seul mois par les frappes
    russes, s’est alerté pour sa part, le ministre ukrainien de l’Infrastructure,
    Oleksandr Kubrakov.


    Schengen – Lors d’une rencontre à Vienne, avec son homologue
    autrichien, Gerhard Karner, le ministre roumain de l’Intérieur, Cătălin
    Predoiu, a affirmé que son ministère avait l’ambition de transformer la
    Roumanie en « un exemple de protection des frontières». Le responsable
    roumain a annoncé la signature d’un accord du règlement de Dublin qui facilite
    les procédures d’asile. Et Predoiu
    d’affirmer que la migration restait un sujet important pour la Roumanie. Pour
    sa part, le ministre autrichien a déclaré que le modèle de coopération convenu
    par Vienne et Bucarest dans le domaine de la lutte contre la criminalité
    transfrontalière devrait être encouragé au niveau européen aussi. A ses dires,
    la collaboration transfrontalière a porté ses fruits dans le cadre d’une action
    commune menée par les autorités roumaines, hongroises et autrichiennes.
    Rappelons que l’Autriche est le seul pays qui s’oppose à l’adhésion de la
    Roumanie à l’Espace Schengen, bien que le pays remplisse depuis longtemps les
    conditions techniques nécessaires. Au niveau global, le système Schengen a des
    défaillances, a réitéré mercredi Gerhard Karner avant de préciser que pour sa
    part, un élargissement de l’Espace n’était pas opportun.






    Enquête – En Roumanie, quatre chefs de la Police de Constanta,
    dans le sud-est, ont été démis suite à l’accident survenu dans la station de 2
    Mai dans lequel un jeune de 19 ans conduisant sous l’influence de plusieurs
    drogues a tué deux personnes et blessé trois. Les
    policiers ont arrêté le conducteur trois
    heures avant l’accident et l’ont relâché sans le soumettre à un test, malgré
    les drogues qu’ils avaient été trouvés dans la voiture et malgré le fait que sa
    conduite sur la route a inquiété un conducteur qui a alerté la police. Après
    cet accident, la Police routière mène des contrôles au niveau nationale pour
    dépister les chauffeurs qui sont au volant sous l’influence des substances
    interdites ou de l’alcool.








    Pompier – Les pompiers roumains déployés en Grèce ont été sollicités
    mercredi pour intervenir dans une mission d’extinction d’un feu qui a brûlé la
    végétation près de l’autoroute en direction
    de la ville grecque d’Alexandroúpolis. Plus de 50 pompiers, appuyés par
    dix camions-citernes, ont lutté contre les flammes, apprend-on auprès de
    l’Inspection générale pour les situations d’urgence de Bucarest. En parallèle, la situation est surveillée depuis l’espace grâce
    au programme satellite européen Copernicus.




    Victimes – Le premier ministre roumain, Marcel Ciolacu,
    a réaffirmé mercredi l’engagement de son cabinet d’intensifier les efforts de
    lutter contre toutes les formes d’extrémisme, de conserver la vérité
    historique, de stimuler les démarches censées éduquer les citoyens et notamment
    les jeunes générations au sujet des moments sombres de l’histoire de la
    Roumanie. Dans un message transmis mercredi, à l’occasion de la Journée
    européenne de commémoration des victimes de tous les régimes totalitaires et la
    Journée nationale de la Commémoration des victimes du fascisme et du
    communisme, M. Ciolacu a affirmé que le négationnisme et l’apologie du régime
    communiste peuvent toujours compromettre le progrès réalisé jusqu’ici pour
    consolider la démocratie.










    Tennis – La joueuse de tennis roumaine Gabriela Ruse a battu la Française
    Kristina Mladenovic 6-2, 6-2, mardi, dans le cadre du premier tour du tournoi
    de l’US Open, dernier Grand Chelem de l’année, qui se déroule dans les arènes
    de Flushing Meadows à New York. Les Roumaines Jaqueline
    Cristian et Miriam Bulgaru ont quant à elles été battues.


    Météo –La canicule persistera jeudi aussi, en Roumanie, mais
    seulement dans le sud et dans les régions de plaine. Les températures maximales
    iront de 27 à 36 degrés. Nous aurons jeudi, à midi, 34 degrés dans la capitale
    roumaine.

  • Sportivul săptămânii: Jucătoarea de tenis Gabriela Ruse

    Sportivul săptămânii: Jucătoarea de tenis Gabriela Ruse

    Săptămâna trecută,
    mai multe jucătoare de tenis din România s-au aflat printre protagonistele
    concursurilor internaţionale la care au luat parte. Irina Begu a ajuns până în
    sferturile de finală ale turneului WTA 1000 de la Madrid, apoi a urcat pe locul
    27 în ierarhia mondială, ajungând aproape de cea mai bună clasare din carieră,
    respectiv poziţia cu numărul 22, în 2016. Tot la Madrid, Gabriela Ruse a fost
    foarte aproape de finala probei de dublu feminin. Alături de ucraineanca Marta
    Kostiuk, ea a ajuns până în semifinale, unde au fost învinse la mare luptă de
    perechea americană Jessica Pegula / Coco Gauff, numărul unu pe lista
    favoritelor, cu 7-5, 7-6. În fine, Sorana Cîrstea a câştigat turneul WTA 125
    desfăşurat în Spania, la Reus, dotat cu premii de 100 de mii de euro, după ce
    s-a impus, în finală, în faţa sportivei americane Elizabeth Mandlik. Am avut
    deci de ales, pentru desemnarea Sportivului Săptămânii, între cele trei jucătoare
    amintite şi ne-am oprit la Gabriela Ruse. Pentru performanţa sa, ea a câştigat
    390 de puncte WTA, mai multe decât Irina şi Sorana, şi a reuşit un salt de
    şapte poziţii în clasamentul la dublu, fiind acum pe locul 32, care reprezintă cea
    mai bună clasare din carieră sa.


    Elena-Gabriela Ruse
    s-a născut la 6 noiembrie 1997, la Bucureşti. A început să joace tenis la patru
    ani şi jumătate, la Dinamo Bucureşti. A câştigat, în carieră, un singur turneu
    WTA la simplu, și anume în 2021, la Hamburg. În același an a fost finalistă la
    Palermo. Ocupă, la simplu, locul 152 în clasamentul mondial. Cel mai sus a
    urcat în luna mai a anului trecut, și anume pe locul 51. S-a remarcat mai mult
    la dublu, mai ales de când face pereche cu ucraineanca Marta Kostiuk. Anul
    acesta, în primul turneu de Mare Şlem al anului, la Melbourne, cele două
    sportive au ajuns până în semifinale.


  • Actualidad deportiva, miércoles 1 de febrero

    Actualidad deportiva, miércoles 1 de febrero

    ¡Bienvenidos al espacio radial que dedicamos a la información deportiva!. Hoy, tiro – Copa del mundo, tenis, balonmano, hockey y atletismo:


    La atleta rumana Laura Ilie ganó la medalla de bronce en la prueba de rifle de aire comprimido de 10 metros, el sábado pasado, en la Copa del Mundo de Tiro celebrada en Yakarta, Indonesia. La ex campeona de Europa logró una muy buena puntuación en las clasificatorias, ubicándose en el segundo lugar con 631,4 puntos. En la final, obtuvo la tercera marca, concretamente 260. El oro lo ganó la atleta húngara Eszter Meszaros, y la plata la polaca Aneta Stankiewicz.



    El Abierto de Tenis de Australia, el primer torneo de Grand Slam del año, finalizó el domingo. Novak Djokovic ganó en hombres y Arina Sabalenka en mujeres. Los organizadores del Abierto de Australia anunciaron este martes que la edición de este año estableció un nuevo récord de audiencia para un torneo de Grand Slam, con más de 900.000 espectadores presentes en las gradas durante las tres semanas de competencia, a pesar de la ausencia de jugadores de renombre y de la interrupción del programa debido a la lluvia, informa Reuters.


    Entre las jugadoras de Rumanía, destacó Elena-Gabriela Ruse. Llegó a semifinales del evento de dobles femenino, donde hizo equipo con la ucraniana Marta Kostiuk. La pareja rumana-ucraniana fue derrotada por la pareja checa Barbora Krejcikova / Katerina Siniakova, cabeza de serie número uno, que luego ganó la final. Para Ruse y Kostiuk, clasificarse para las semifinales representó su mejor desempeño en un torneo de Grand Slam.


    La polaca Iga Swiatek sigue líder indiscutible en el ranking mundial de tenistas profesionales (WTA), publicado este lunes, tras el Abierto de Australia, donde paró en octavos de final.


    La bielorrusa Arina Sabalenka sube tres puestos y se sitúa en la segunda posición de la jerarquía tras su primer título de Grand Slam, conquistado el sábado en Melbourne.


    La kazaja Elena Rîbakina, derrotada en tres sets por Sabalenka en la final, logró un espectacular salto de 15 puestos y ocupa la décima posición, la mejor de su carrera.


    Rumanía tiene sólo cuatro representantes en el top 100, Simona Halep, que, aunque no juega desde septiembre (está suspendida provisionalmente tras dar positivo en un control antidopaje), sigue siendo nuestra jugadora mejor clasificada, en el puesto 15. Irina Begu escaló tres posiciones respecto a la jerarquía de hace dos semanas, Sorana Cîrstea descendió 19 puestos y se encuentra en el 61, y Ana Bogdan bajó cinco puestos y ocupa el numero 68.


    En dobles, Gabriela Ruse logró un espectacular salto de 49 puestos y llega al 49, gracias a la semifinal disputada en Melbourne junto a la ucraniana Marta Kostiuk. Y Monica Niculescu escaló en el ranking, ubicándose en el puesto 45, luego de un avance de ocho lugares.



    El equipo de balonmano femenino CSM Bucarest dio, a principios de esta semana, un gran paso hacia el título de campeón de Rumania. El equipo dirigido por Adrian Vasile superó, por 27 a 26, al defensor del título, el Rapid Bucarest, del que se ha distanciado en la clasificación, ahora, por 9 puntos. El partido tuvo lugar en la Sala Polivalentă de Bucarest y el CSM fue el anfitrión. El juego fue equilibrado.El CSM estuvo separado por cuatro goles en los últimos 10 minutos del encuentro. Las chicas del Rapid remontaron, pero no pudieron igualar. Por el equipo ganador, la goleadora más efectiva fue Cristina Neagu, quien anotó 8 veces. Del campo de los perdedores, destacó la francésa Orlane Kanor, con 6 aciertos. También fue ella quien, tras un mal pase, desperdició la oportunidad de empatar en los últimos segundos. Sorina Grozav, una de las mejores jugadoras de la generación joven en el balonmano rumano, no jugó en el Rapid.


    La etapa 14, que incluyó el partido CSM – Rapid, fue la primera de la vuelta del campeonato. En la clasificación, el CSM ahora tiene 40 puntos, de 13 victorias y un empate. En segundo lugar está el Gloria Bistrita, con 34 puntos, y en tercer lugar, el SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea, con 32. El Rapid solo ocupa el 4º lugar, con 31 puntos.



    El fin de semana, CSM y Rapid tienen partidos en la Champions League, y SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea, en la EHF European League. Los veloces jugarán el sábado, en Francia, en Metz, el líder del grupo B. Para los campeones rumanos, el partido es crucial para la clasificación directa a cuartos de final. A falta de dos etapas para la fase de grupos, Metz tiene 21 puntos, seguido de tres equipos con 18 cada uno: Győr, de Hungría, Esbjerg, de Dinamarca, y Rapid.


    En el Grupo A, el CSM juega el domingo, en casa, también con un equipo francés: el Brest Bretagne. El subcampeón rumano ya está clasificado para los cuartos de final y lidera la clasificación de grupo, con 21 puntos. Le sigue el equipo noruego Vipers Kristiansand, con 19. Solo los equipos de los dos primeros puestos de cada grupo pasan directamente a los cuartos de final de la Champions League. Las formaciones en las posiciones 3, 4, 5 y 6 juegan partidos cruzados de play-off.


    En la Liga Europea EHF, el SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea juega el sábado, en casa, contra el Thüringer. El equipo alemán es actualmente el líder del Grupo D con 6 puntos en tres partidos. Vâlcea está en segundo lugar, con 2 puntos, empatado con los equipos en 3° y 4° lugares, respectivamente Paris 92, de Francia, y Vác, de Hungría, pero con mejor diferencia de goles.



    En la competición regional de hockey sobre hielo de la Erste Liga, el Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc derrotó el domingo al equipo húngaro Fehérvár Hockey Académia por 7-3. El equipo de Hungría también jugó el viernes, en Braşov, contra el Corona, en el que cayó derrotado por 5 a 3. El ACSH Gheorgheni lidera el ranking, con 75 puntos en 34 partidos. Le siguen el Budapest Hockey Académia, con 73 puntos en 33 encuentros.


    El atleta rumano Gabriel Bitan se impuso este sábado en el salto de longitud de la reunión en pista cubierta de Manchester, etapa del World Indoor Tour, con 7,73 metros.


    Nuestra cita termina aquí. ¡Feliz semana!

  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Three tennis players from Romania have qualified for the second round of the US Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year. The first was Gabriela Ruse, who, on Monday, defeated the Australian of Russian origin Daria Saville, formerly Gavrilova, in the first round. The 24-year-old Romanian, ranked 101 in the WTA classification, obtained the first main-draw win of her career at Flushing Meadows. The Romanian needed two hours and 15 minutes of play, but eventually she defeated 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 a player better placed in the world ranking, i.e. on 58th position. Its worth mentioning that Ruse had suffered surgery on her left wrist at the beginning of the month, and she had played her last game at a tournament in July.



    Sorana Cîrstea (WTA 37) also moves on. On Tuesday, she defeated Germany’s Laura Siegemund, world number 182, 6-4, 6-4. The Romanian player had a more defensive performance only at the beginning of the second set, when Siegemund managed a break and took the lead with the score 4-2, but Cîrstea came back and took control, defeating the German 6-4, after winning four games in a row.



    Irina Begu, world no. 42, needed three sets to defeat the Belgian Elise Mertens (WTA 33). The Romanian player lost the first set 3 to 6. She then came back and won 6-2 in the second set, winning the decisive set with the same score.



    Another two tennis players from Romania were eliminated, on Monday, in the first round. Simona Halep, the tournaments 7th seed, who had won the WTA 1,000 title in Toronto, was defeated, after one hour and 40 minutes, by a 20-year-old player ranked 124th in the world classification, the Ukrainian Daria Snigur, who won in three sets, 6-2, 0-6, 6-4. Jaqueline Cristian, world no. 77, also lost to the tournaments 2nd seed, Anett Kontaveit, from Estonia. (LS)

  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    Three tennis players from Romania have qualified for the second round of the US Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year. The first was Gabriela Ruse, who, on Monday, defeated the Australian of Russian origin Daria Saville, formerly Gavrilova, in the first round. The 24-year-old Romanian, ranked 101 in the WTA classification, obtained the first main-draw win of her career at Flushing Meadows. The Romanian needed two hours and 15 minutes of play, but eventually she defeated 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 a player better placed in the world ranking, i.e. on 58th position. Its worth mentioning that Ruse had suffered surgery on her left wrist at the beginning of the month, and she had played her last game at a tournament in July.



    Sorana Cîrstea (WTA 37) also moves on. On Tuesday, she defeated Germany’s Laura Siegemund, world number 182, 6-4, 6-4. The Romanian player had a more defensive performance only at the beginning of the second set, when Siegemund managed a break and took the lead with the score 4-2, but Cîrstea came back and took control, defeating the German 6-4, after winning four games in a row.



    Irina Begu, world no. 42, needed three sets to defeat the Belgian Elise Mertens (WTA 33). The Romanian player lost the first set 3 to 6. She then came back and won 6-2 in the second set, winning the decisive set with the same score.



    Another two tennis players from Romania were eliminated, on Monday, in the first round. Simona Halep, the tournaments 7th seed, who had won the WTA 1,000 title in Toronto, was defeated, after one hour and 40 minutes, by a 20-year-old player ranked 124th in the world classification, the Ukrainian Daria Snigur, who won in three sets, 6-2, 0-6, 6-4. Jaqueline Cristian, world no. 77, also lost to the tournaments 2nd seed, Anett Kontaveit, from Estonia. (LS)