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The year’s first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian tennis Open, has
now reached the quarterfinal stage. A couple of seeded competitors, among whom
the world’s number one tennis player, Poland’s Iga Swiatek, have already left
the competition.

The Romanian participants, in the singles but also in the double’s events
have already been eliminated from the competition’s very first week. The last Romanian
to have stepped onto the tennis court was Victor Cornea, who this past Saturday was defeated
in the Open’s men’s doubles event, where he paired up with India’s Nsriram
Balaji. Cornea and Balaji were defeated by the 10th-seeded Salvadorian-Croatian
pair made of Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic, 3-6, 3-6. 69th-placed according to
the world’s doubles rankings, Victor Cornea participated for the third time in
a Grand Slam tournament. We recall that in 2023 Cornea took part in Roland
Garros and the US Open. In the recently-held edition of the Australian Open, in
the first round Victor Cornea and Nsriram Balaji defeated the all-Italian pair made of
Matteo Arnaldi and Andrea Pellegrino, 6-3, 6-4. The Romanian-Indian pair has thus
secured a cheque of 53, 000 Australian Dollars. Since 2021, Victor Cornea was the first
Romanian player to have been included in the men’s event main draw in a Grand
Slam tournament. The last such Romanian had been Horia Tecău, who retired in
2022. We recall that, jointly with the German Kevin Krawietz, Tecau secured his
last Grand Slam wins at the 2021 edition of the Australian Open.

In 2024
in Melbourne, the last Romanian to have proved her mettle in the women’s doubles
was Ana Bogdan. In the second round, Bogdan and the Spanish Slovak-born Rebeka
Masarova sustained a 3-6, 1-6 defeat by the 6th-seeded American-Japanese
pair made of Desirae Krawczyk and Ena Shibahara.

In the women’s singles, no Romanian
tennis player was could go past the first round. The Romanian tennis is emphatically
deprived of the presence of Simona Halep. Former WTA, number one tennis player still
feels the pinch of her suspension, following doping charges. Halep awaits the
retrial of her case by Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, in the first
decade of February 2024.

23 January 2024
Athlete of the week

Romania’s most important
tennis tournament has recently drawn to a close in Cluj-Napoca. It is known as WTA
250 Transylvania Open, a women’s tournament with 260 thousand USD in prize
money. Taking part in the tournament have been several top-flight tennis players,
both in women’s singles and in women’s doubles. All eight seeded players in the
women’s singles are ranked among the world’s top 100 tennis players. Among them, Romania’s Sorana
Cîrstea, Alycia Parks of the USA, Belgium’s Greet Minnen or
Spaniard Rebeka Masarova. Apart from Sorana Cirstea, six other Romanian tennis
players have been included in the main draw. Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie came straight
from the qualifiers. Jaqueline Cristian, Patricia Ţig and Ana Bogdan gained their
admission thanks to their WTA rankings, while Miriam Bulgaru and Elena-Gabriela
Ruse got wild cards. Elena-Gabriela Ruse was the best since she reached as far
as the tournament’s final.

Reason enough for
Radio Romania International to designate Ruse the Athlete of the week.

In Cluj-Napoca, Elena-Gabriela Ruse defeated second-seeded
Alycia Parks, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4, in the first round. In the second round, Ruse
defeated Hungarian opponent Anna Bondar, 7-6, 6-2. In
the quarterfinals, Elena Ruse defeated Colombian challenger Emiliana Arango, 6-1, nil-6,
6-1. In the semi-finals, Elena Gabriela Ruse defeated fourth-seeded tennis
player Rebeka Masarova, 6-1, 6-4. However, in the final, Elena Gabriela Ruse
was defeated by Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch, 6-3, 6-4.

Elena-Gabriela Ruse was born on November 6, 1997, in Bucharest. She took
up tennis when she was four and a half years old, with Dinamo Bucharest sports
club. Her career-best so far includes only one WTA women’s singles tournament
she won in Hamburg, in 2021. Also in 202,1 Ruse was a finalist in the Palermo
tournament. In Cluj-Napoca Elena-Gabriela Ruse made it to the finals for the
third time around in her women’s single career. Ruse therefore climbed 61
notches up and now ranks 127th according to the world standings. Elena-Gabriela Ruse was best-placed in May 2022, when she ranked 51st. Elena-Gabriela
Ruse’s performance in the women’s doubles is far more consistent, especially
since she has been pairing up with Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk. Elena Gabriela Ruse
is 37th-placed according to the world’s women’s doubles rankings. In 2023, in
the year’s first Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne, Ruse and Kostyuk reached
as far as the semi-finals.

24 October 2023
Sports weekend

Ana Bogdan and Sorana Cîrstea on Thursday advanced to the third round of
the Wimbledon tournament. In the second round, Bogdan outperformed US opponent Alycia Parks, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2. 30-year-old
And Bogdan as an absolute first in her career has advanced to the third round
at Wimbledon. Sorana Cîrstea plays, however, for the fifth time in the third round
at Wimbledon. We recall that Cirstea in the second round on Thursday defeated 17th-seeded
player at Wimbledon, Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko, 4-6, 7-6, 6-4.

Time now
for news from football. The European Youth Football Championship, jointly
hosted by Georgia and Romania, draws to a close this coming weekend. On
Saturday in Batumi, on the Georgian shore of the Black Sea, in the Championship’s
final, Spain play England. In this past Wednesday’s semifinal in Bucharest Spain
trounced Ukraine, 5-1 while in Batumi, England defeated Israel, 3-nil. Playing
in Group B in Bucharest, the national U-21 Romanian team lost to Spain, nil-3, sustained
yet another defeat by Ukraine, nil-1 and achieved an unassuming blank draw
against Croatia.

This coming
Saturday the domestic football season resumes with the Romanian Super cup. The Ilie
Oana Stadium in Ploiesti plays host to the match pitting Farul Constanţa and Sepsi
OSK Sfântu Gheorghe. Farul had no problem winning the Championship, being, in
Group1, 7 points clear of the runner-up team FCSB of Bucharest. Sepsi got the
upper hand in the Romanian Cup, defeating Universitatea Cluj in the final, 5-4,
after extra time and the penalty shootouts. Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe are the holders
of the Supercup. We recall that in 2022 Sepsi defeated then the champion team
CFR Cluj, 2-1, in Arad. Farul Constanta won the Supercup only once, in 2019,
when the team was named Viitorul. The final was also played in Ploiesti; back
then Gheorghe Hagi’s trainees defeated CFR Cluj, 1-nil.

7 July 2023
Sports flash

We begin with news from womens volleyball. In the first leg as part of the CEV womens volleyball cup final this past Wednesday in Targu Mures, Volei Alba Blaj sustained a 1-3 defeat by Italian opponents Scandicci. The return leg is scheduled this coming Wednesday in Florence. For Voli Alba Blaj, the fixture is the fourth European final they have played in the last six years. CSM has played the final confrontation in all European interclub competitions: in the Champions league, in 2018, in the CEV Cup, in 2019 and in the Challenge Cup, in 2021

Romanian tennis player Irina Begu has advanced to the round of 18 of the IWTA 500 tournament in Charleston, the USA, an event with 780, 637 USD in prize money. In the tournaments round of 32, this past Wednesday Begu defeated US challenger Sofia Kenin, 6-1, 6-4. Begu will be given a cheque worth 9,340 USD and will be granted 55 WTA points. In the round of 18, Irina Begu takes on the tournaments top-seeded tennis player, Jessica Pegula, also from the US.

In the debut day of the World Swimming Championships held in Otopnei, the many-time world champion David Popovici on Wednesday won gold in the 50m freestyle event and thin the 100m backstroke event, The competition draws to a close on Sunday. The worlds best swimmer at the moment, Popovici, will also compete in the 50m backstroke event, the 50m butterfly event and in the 100m freestyle event. David Popovici will also compete in the 400m freestyle event and in some of relay events.

Romanian Cup in footballs quarterfinal fixtures are played this week. On Tuesday, UTA Arad grabbed a 1-nil home win against FC U Craiova. On Wednesday, Universitatea Cluj secured a 2 – 1 away win against FC Hermannstadt of Sibiu. The two winning sides will play each other in the semi-finals, on April 26. The last two quarterfinal fixtures are scheduled on Thursday: Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe take on Mioveni, while CFR Cluj play FC Argeş.

6 April 2023
Sports flash

We begin with news from womens volleyball. In the first leg as part of the CEV womens volleyball cup final this past Wednesday in Targu Mures, Volei Alba Blaj sustained a 1-3 defeat by Italian opponents Scandicci. The return leg is scheduled this coming Wednesday in Florence. For Voli Alba Blaj, the fixture is the fourth European final they have played in the last six years. CSM has played the final confrontation in all European interclub competitions: in the Champions league, in 2018, in the CEV Cup, in 2019 and in the Challenge Cup, in 2021

Romanian tennis player Irina Begu has advanced to the round of 18 of the IWTA 500 tournament in Charleston, the USA, an event with 780, 637 USD in prize money. In the tournaments round of 32, this past Wednesday Begu defeated US challenger Sofia Kenin, 6-1, 6-4. Begu will be given a cheque worth 9,340 USD and will be granted 55 WTA points. In the round of 18, Irina Begu takes on the tournaments top-seeded tennis player, Jessica Pegula, also from the US.

In the debut day of the World Swimming Championships held in Otopnei, the many-time world champion David Popovici on Wednesday won gold in the 50m freestyle event and thin the 100m backstroke event, The competition draws to a close on Sunday. The worlds best swimmer at the moment, Popovici, will also compete in the 50m backstroke event, the 50m butterfly event and in the 100m freestyle event. David Popovici will also compete in the 400m freestyle event and in some of relay events.

Romanian Cup in footballs quarterfinal fixtures are played this week. On Tuesday, UTA Arad grabbed a 1-nil home win against FC U Craiova. On Wednesday, Universitatea Cluj secured a 2 – 1 away win against FC Hermannstadt of Sibiu. The two winning sides will play each other in the semi-finals, on April 26. The last two quarterfinal fixtures are scheduled on Thursday: Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe take on Mioveni, while CFR Cluj play FC Argeş.

6 April 2023
Radio Romania International Sports club

Romanian tennis player Elena Gabriela Ruse this
past Wednesday advanced to the women’s doubles semifinals as part of the year’s
first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open. In the quarterfinals, Elena Gabriela
Ruse and Ukraine’s Marta Kostiuk defeated Australia’s Storm Hunter and 4th-seeded
tennis player, Belgium’s Elise Mertens, 7-6, 2-6, 6-4.

It took Elena Gabriela Ruse and Marta
Kostiuk two and a half hours of play to win the confrontation. The two succeeded
their peak performance in a Grand Slam tournament. Elena Gabriela Ruse and Marta
Kostiuk had a rather sluggish start as the scoreboard displayed a 2-nil advantage
for Hunter and Mertens. Yet Ruse and Kostiuk came from behind and forced the
tiebreak, securing a first-set, 8-6 win as Hunter and Mertens had a 5-2 lead earlier
into the game. In the second set, Hunter and Mertens had no problem securing a
6-2 win, even though Ruse and Kostiuk had won the first two games of the set. In the third set,
which was the decisive one, Ruse and Kostiuk began with a break, then later during
the game secured a 5-2 advantage and eventually won the set, 6-4.

Having advanced to the Australian Open’s quarterfinals,
Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Marta Kostiuk received 210,000 AUD and were granted
780 WTA points, according to the women’s double rankings, In the semifinals,
Ruse and Kostiuk are pitted against top-seeded opponents, Australian Open title
holders, the all-Czech pair made of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova,

The other Romania tennis players competing in
Melbourne have all been eliminated from competition. In the women’s singles, it
was only Irina Begu who reached as far as the second round. We recall this past
Thursday Begu was defeated by Laura Siegemund of Germany. In the women’s
doubles, apart from Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Monica Niculescu also had a
satisfactory run, pairing up with Swiss player Viktorija Golubic. Monica and Victorija
were unable to go past the round of 16 as they were defeated by Hunter and Mertens,
the pair that laser was eliminated by Ruse and Kostiuk. Niculescu and Golubic will
be rewarded with a cheque worth 67,250 AUD and 240 WTA points. (EN)

25 January 2023
Radio Romania International Sports club

Romanian tennis player Elena Gabriela Ruse this
past Wednesday advanced to the women’s doubles semifinals as part of the year’s
first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open. In the quarterfinals, Elena Gabriela
Ruse and Ukraine’s Marta Kostiuk defeated Australia’s Storm Hunter and 4th-seeded
tennis player, Belgium’s Elise Mertens, 7-6, 2-6, 6-4.

It took Elena Gabriela Ruse and Marta
Kostiuk two and a half hours of play to win the confrontation. The two succeeded
their peak performance in a Grand Slam tournament. Elena Gabriela Ruse and Marta
Kostiuk had a rather sluggish start as the scoreboard displayed a 2-nil advantage
for Hunter and Mertens. Yet Ruse and Kostiuk came from behind and forced the
tiebreak, securing a first-set, 8-6 win as Hunter and Mertens had a 5-2 lead earlier
into the game. In the second set, Hunter and Mertens had no problem securing a
6-2 win, even though Ruse and Kostiuk had won the first two games of the set. In the third set,
which was the decisive one, Ruse and Kostiuk began with a break, then later during
the game secured a 5-2 advantage and eventually won the set, 6-4.

Having advanced to the Australian Open’s quarterfinals,
Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Marta Kostiuk received 210,000 AUD and were granted
780 WTA points, according to the women’s double rankings, In the semifinals,
Ruse and Kostiuk are pitted against top-seeded opponents, Australian Open title
holders, the all-Czech pair made of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova,

The other Romania tennis players competing in
Melbourne have all been eliminated from competition. In the women’s singles, it
was only Irina Begu who reached as far as the second round. We recall this past
Thursday Begu was defeated by Laura Siegemund of Germany. In the women’s
doubles, apart from Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Monica Niculescu also had a
satisfactory run, pairing up with Swiss player Viktorija Golubic. Monica and Victorija
were unable to go past the round of 16 as they were defeated by Hunter and Mertens,
the pair that laser was eliminated by Ruse and Kostiuk. Niculescu and Golubic will
be rewarded with a cheque worth 67,250 AUD and 240 WTA points. (EN)

25 January 2023
Sports Roundup

Romanian
women’ s handball team CSM Bucharest have made a giant leap forward, towards the
Champions League’s quarterfinals. In an 11th-round, Group A fixture, head-coach
Adrian Vasile’s trainees grabbed a comfortable 40-31 win against Danish champions
Odense. CSM Bucharest’s most efficient scorers were Cristina Neagu, with 10
goals, followed by Elizabeth
Omoregie and Crina Pintea, with 6 goals each. Holders CSM Bucharest are at the top
of the table in Group A, with 19 points. The winner of the Champions League’s
previous edition, Norway’s Vipers Kristiansand, is the runner-up
team, with 17 points. In order to secure their qualification to the Champions League’s
quarterfinals, CSM needs one more point in the team’s next three scheduled
fixtures. Cristina Neagu and her teammates will travel to Germany for an away
match against Bietigheim.

Rapid Bucharest is the
other Romanian team playing in the Champions league. Rapid sustained a 30-35
defeat by Danish challengers Esbjerg, away from home. With 9 goals scored, Rapid’s
most efficient scorer was Spanish handballer Jennifer
Gutierrez Bermejo. In Group B, Rapid are 4th-placed, with 16 points, on a par
with 3rd-placed team, Esbjerg. French team Metz Handball are at the
top of the table, with 19 points, followed by Hungary’s Gyor, with 18. This coming
Sunday, on January 22nd, Rapid play a home game against Turkish
champions Kastamonu. Advancing straight to the Champions League’s quarterfinals
are the 1st and 2nd-placed teams in each group. 3rd, 4th,
5th and 6th placed teams will prove their mettle in the playoff
fixtures according to a round-robin system.

In Europe’s second-tier
competition, the EHF European League, SCM Ramnicu Valcea sustained a 22-24 Group
D away defeat by a Paris 92, in Issy-Les-Moulineaux. With 6 goals scored, SCM’s
top scorer was Ukrainian handballer Irina Glibko. In Group D, with 4 points in
two games, German team Thüringer are at the top of the table. In descending order,
CSM Ramnicu Valcea and Paris 92 follow, with 2 points each. Bottom of the table
are the Hungarian team Vac, with zero points on their record sheet. This coming
Sunday, CSM Ramnicu Valcea play an away fixture against Thuringer.

In news from tennis, main draw matches have
already been played as part of the year’s first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian
Open in Melbourne. Romania is represented only in the women’s version of the
competition. 3rd-seeded tennis player, Jessica Pegula of the USA,
defeated Jaqueline Cristian, 6-nil, 6-1, while Hungary’s Ana Bondár defeated Ana
Bogdan 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. On Tuesday, Irina Begu will face China’s Saisai Zheng. Patricia Tig will take on Shuai Zhang, also from China, while Sorana Cîrstea is pitted against
Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan.(EN)

16 January 2023
Sports Roundup

Romanian
women’ s handball team CSM Bucharest have made a giant leap forward, towards the
Champions League’s quarterfinals. In an 11th-round, Group A fixture, head-coach
Adrian Vasile’s trainees grabbed a comfortable 40-31 win against Danish champions
Odense. CSM Bucharest’s most efficient scorers were Cristina Neagu, with 10
goals, followed by Elizabeth
Omoregie and Crina Pintea, with 6 goals each. Holders CSM Bucharest are at the top
of the table in Group A, with 19 points. The winner of the Champions League’s
previous edition, Norway’s Vipers Kristiansand, is the runner-up
team, with 17 points. In order to secure their qualification to the Champions League’s
quarterfinals, CSM needs one more point in the team’s next three scheduled
fixtures. Cristina Neagu and her teammates will travel to Germany for an away
match against Bietigheim.

Rapid Bucharest is the
other Romanian team playing in the Champions league. Rapid sustained a 30-35
defeat by Danish challengers Esbjerg, away from home. With 9 goals scored, Rapid’s
most efficient scorer was Spanish handballer Jennifer
Gutierrez Bermejo. In Group B, Rapid are 4th-placed, with 16 points, on a par
with 3rd-placed team, Esbjerg. French team Metz Handball are at the
top of the table, with 19 points, followed by Hungary’s Gyor, with 18. This coming
Sunday, on January 22nd, Rapid play a home game against Turkish
champions Kastamonu. Advancing straight to the Champions League’s quarterfinals
are the 1st and 2nd-placed teams in each group. 3rd, 4th,
5th and 6th placed teams will prove their mettle in the playoff
fixtures according to a round-robin system.

In Europe’s second-tier
competition, the EHF European League, SCM Ramnicu Valcea sustained a 22-24 Group
D away defeat by a Paris 92, in Issy-Les-Moulineaux. With 6 goals scored, SCM’s
top scorer was Ukrainian handballer Irina Glibko. In Group D, with 4 points in
two games, German team Thüringer are at the top of the table. In descending order,
CSM Ramnicu Valcea and Paris 92 follow, with 2 points each. Bottom of the table
are the Hungarian team Vac, with zero points on their record sheet. This coming
Sunday, CSM Ramnicu Valcea play an away fixture against Thuringer.

In news from tennis, main draw matches have
already been played as part of the year’s first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian
Open in Melbourne. Romania is represented only in the women’s version of the
competition. 3rd-seeded tennis player, Jessica Pegula of the USA,
defeated Jaqueline Cristian, 6-nil, 6-1, while Hungary’s Ana Bondár defeated Ana
Bogdan 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. On Tuesday, Irina Begu will face China’s Saisai Zheng. Patricia Tig will take on Shuai Zhang, also from China, while Sorana Cîrstea is pitted against
Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan.(EN)

16 January 2023
Athlete of the week

The womens clay court tennis tournament in Palermo seems to have always drawn women tennis players from Romania to take part in it. We should not forget the Romanian women tennis players have many supporters in Sicily, especially among the fellow Romanians who settled there. Also, the Romanians feel quite at home playing on a clay court. We recall that 30 years ago, in 1994 and 1995, another Romanian, Irina Sparlea won the trophy. In 2021, Elena‑Gabriela Ruse was a whisker away from winning, yet she was defeated by US challenger Danielle Collins. In 2022, Irina Begu emerged as the winner of the Palermo tournament as in the final the Romanian overpowered her opponent, Italys Lucia Bronzetti. Reason enough for Radio Romania International to designate Irina the Athlete of the week.

Irina Begu was 6th-seeded in Palermo. Her successful run includes a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win against Spains Marina Bassols Ribera, another three-set win against French opponent Océane Dodin, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4, in the second round, and a more laid-back, two-set win against Diane Parry, also from France 6-1, 6-3. Irinas trail in Palermo also includes a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win against the 4th-seeded player, Spains Sara Sorribes Tormo in the semi-finals; it was Irina Begus most difficult confrontation in the tournament, yet the Romanian braced up and won, after more than three hours of play. Irina Begu had no problem securing a two-set win against Italian challenger Lucia Bronzetti, 6-2, 6-2. For her exceptional feat in Sicily, Begu received 26, 770 Euro and 280 WTA points

Irina Camelia Begu was born in Bucharest. She turns 32 in August this year. Her recent win in Palermo only adds to other noteworthy feats on her record. Irina also has four womens singles WTA tournaments she won in Tashkent, in 2012, in Seoul, in 2015, in Florianopolis, the USA, in 2016 and in Bucharest, in 2017. In the womens doubles, Irina Begu won nine tournaments, in Hobart in 2012, jointly with Monica Niculescu, in s-Hertogenbosch, in 2013, pairing up with Anabel Medina Garrigues and in Rio, in 2014, jointly with Maria Irigoyen. Also in 2014, in Seoul, Irina emerged as winner together with Lara Arruabarrena, then in 2017, jointly with Raluca Olaru, she won the tournament in Bucharest. Also in 2017, Irina Begu and sara Errani won the tournament in Tianjin. In 2018, Irina Camelia Begu won two other WTA tournaments, in Shenzhen, pairing up with Simona Halep, and again in Bucharest, this time alongside Andreea Mitu, also in 2018. Pairing up with Monica Niculescu, Irina Begu won the Thailand Open, in 2019.(EN)

26 July 2022
Athlete of the week

The womens clay court tennis tournament in Palermo seems to have always drawn women tennis players from Romania to take part in it. We should not forget the Romanian women tennis players have many supporters in Sicily, especially among the fellow Romanians who settled there. Also, the Romanians feel quite at home playing on a clay court. We recall that 30 years ago, in 1994 and 1995, another Romanian, Irina Sparlea won the trophy. In 2021, Elena‑Gabriela Ruse was a whisker away from winning, yet she was defeated by US challenger Danielle Collins. In 2022, Irina Begu emerged as the winner of the Palermo tournament as in the final the Romanian overpowered her opponent, Italys Lucia Bronzetti. Reason enough for Radio Romania International to designate Irina the Athlete of the week.

Irina Begu was 6th-seeded in Palermo. Her successful run includes a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win against Spains Marina Bassols Ribera, another three-set win against French opponent Océane Dodin, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4, in the second round, and a more laid-back, two-set win against Diane Parry, also from France 6-1, 6-3. Irinas trail in Palermo also includes a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win against the 4th-seeded player, Spains Sara Sorribes Tormo in the semi-finals; it was Irina Begus most difficult confrontation in the tournament, yet the Romanian braced up and won, after more than three hours of play. Irina Begu had no problem securing a two-set win against Italian challenger Lucia Bronzetti, 6-2, 6-2. For her exceptional feat in Sicily, Begu received 26, 770 Euro and 280 WTA points

Irina Camelia Begu was born in Bucharest. She turns 32 in August this year. Her recent win in Palermo only adds to other noteworthy feats on her record. Irina also has four womens singles WTA tournaments she won in Tashkent, in 2012, in Seoul, in 2015, in Florianopolis, the USA, in 2016 and in Bucharest, in 2017. In the womens doubles, Irina Begu won nine tournaments, in Hobart in 2012, jointly with Monica Niculescu, in s-Hertogenbosch, in 2013, pairing up with Anabel Medina Garrigues and in Rio, in 2014, jointly with Maria Irigoyen. Also in 2014, in Seoul, Irina emerged as winner together with Lara Arruabarrena, then in 2017, jointly with Raluca Olaru, she won the tournament in Bucharest. Also in 2017, Irina Begu and sara Errani won the tournament in Tianjin. In 2018, Irina Camelia Begu won two other WTA tournaments, in Shenzhen, pairing up with Simona Halep, and again in Bucharest, this time alongside Andreea Mitu, also in 2018. Pairing up with Monica Niculescu, Irina Begu won the Thailand Open, in 2019.(EN)

26 July 2022
Sports weekend

Simona Halep this past Thursday has advanced to the
third round at Wimbledon. 16-th seeded Halep grabbed
a hard-fought 7-5, 6-4 win against WTA 190th-placed, 36-year-old
Belgium challenger Kirsten Flipkens.A Wimbledon winner three
years ago, in the third round Halep will be joining her fellow Romanian participant,
Irina Begu, who on Wednesday secured her ticket to the third round, defeating Italy’s
Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 6-4, 6-4. In the ladies’
doubles event, pairing up with Anhelina Kalynina, Begu was eliminated from the very
first round. OnThursday, the Romanian – Ukrainian pair was defeated by the 11th-seeded
pair made of Alicja Rosolska of Poland and New-Zealand’s Erin Routliffe, 6-4, 6-4.

Romania’s national men’s basketball team has secured
its presence in the second prequalifies round as part of the FIBA EuroBasket
2025 competition. In Timisoara on Thursday, the Romanians defeated Luxembourg, 78-67.
Of the lineup head-coached by Dragan Petricevic, the best basketball player was
Rolland Torok, with 21 points, 3 recoveries and 6 assists. The win in Timisoara
secured the top-of-the-table position for Romania in group B. Luxembourg and Albania
fight for the 2nd-place in the group. In its last fixture scheduled
on July 3rd, Romania will face Albania in Durres. The winners of the
three groups and the best 2nd-placed team advance to the second round
as part of the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 pre-qualifiers.

In news from women’s handball, at the World Youth Championship in Slovenia,
the Romanian team made of under-20 handballers won yet another classification
match. On Thursday, Romania succeeded a heart-throbbing win against Slovakia, 31-30.
The fixture counted towards a lower-echelon position according to the world
rankings.

Of the line-up head-coached by Horațiu
Pașca, the most efficient scorers were Mălina Ioana Bichir, with 7 goals, Alexandra
Gabriela Dumitraşcu, with 6, and Mihaela Andreea Mihai, with 5 goals. On
Friday, in a direct confrontation for the 17th and the 18th
positions, Romania faces Poland.

Rapid Bucharest football team is on a training stage in Austria. In the
coming days, Rapid takes on Polish opponents KS Krakow, LASK Linz of Austria and
Slavia Prague of the Czech Republic. In their first game as part of the ongoing
training stage, Rapid Bucharest sustained a 2-3 defeat by Austrian second-league
team Spusu Sankt Pölten.

(EN)

1 July 2022
Sports weekend

Simona Halep this past Thursday has advanced to the
third round at Wimbledon. 16-th seeded Halep grabbed
a hard-fought 7-5, 6-4 win against WTA 190th-placed, 36-year-old
Belgium challenger Kirsten Flipkens.A Wimbledon winner three
years ago, in the third round Halep will be joining her fellow Romanian participant,
Irina Begu, who on Wednesday secured her ticket to the third round, defeating Italy’s
Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 6-4, 6-4. In the ladies’
doubles event, pairing up with Anhelina Kalynina, Begu was eliminated from the very
first round. OnThursday, the Romanian – Ukrainian pair was defeated by the 11th-seeded
pair made of Alicja Rosolska of Poland and New-Zealand’s Erin Routliffe, 6-4, 6-4.

Romania’s national men’s basketball team has secured
its presence in the second prequalifies round as part of the FIBA EuroBasket
2025 competition. In Timisoara on Thursday, the Romanians defeated Luxembourg, 78-67.
Of the lineup head-coached by Dragan Petricevic, the best basketball player was
Rolland Torok, with 21 points, 3 recoveries and 6 assists. The win in Timisoara
secured the top-of-the-table position for Romania in group B. Luxembourg and Albania
fight for the 2nd-place in the group. In its last fixture scheduled
on July 3rd, Romania will face Albania in Durres. The winners of the
three groups and the best 2nd-placed team advance to the second round
as part of the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 pre-qualifiers.

In news from women’s handball, at the World Youth Championship in Slovenia,
the Romanian team made of under-20 handballers won yet another classification
match. On Thursday, Romania succeeded a heart-throbbing win against Slovakia, 31-30.
The fixture counted towards a lower-echelon position according to the world
rankings.

Of the line-up head-coached by Horațiu
Pașca, the most efficient scorers were Mălina Ioana Bichir, with 7 goals, Alexandra
Gabriela Dumitraşcu, with 6, and Mihaela Andreea Mihai, with 5 goals. On
Friday, in a direct confrontation for the 17th and the 18th
positions, Romania faces Poland.

Rapid Bucharest football team is on a training stage in Austria. In the
coming days, Rapid takes on Polish opponents KS Krakow, LASK Linz of Austria and
Slavia Prague of the Czech Republic. In their first game as part of the ongoing
training stage, Rapid Bucharest sustained a 2-3 defeat by Austrian second-league
team Spusu Sankt Pölten.

(EN)

1 July 2022
Sports flash

Romanian men’s basketball team CSM CSU Oradea Wednesday
night in Aaarhus sustained an 82-84 away defeat by Danish opponents Bakken Bears.
The fixture counted towards the first leg of the FIBA
Europe Cup’s quarterfinals. The return leg will be hosted by the Antonio Alexe sports hall in Oradea, on March 16. Initially,
CSM CSU Oradea’s quarterfinal opponents was Turkish team Bahceşehir Koleji, but
the schedule was changed because Russian team Avdotor Saratov was excluded from
the competition,

In news from men’s handball, Dinamo Bucharest sustained
a 29-34 away defeat by Polish opponents Lomza Vive Kielce Wednesday night. It was Dinamo Bucharest’s last match counting towards the Champions League’s
Group B. With 8 points on its record sheet and on a par with bottom-of-the table
team Motor Zaporoje, Dinamo Bucharest thus ended its Champions League’s trail being
7th-placed, the last-but-one position in Group B. The first two
teams in descending order secure their straight qualification to the
quarterfinals. The 3rd, the 4th and the 5th-placed teams will have
to compete in playoff fixtures to advance to the League’s quarterfinals.

In the second round of the WTA 1000 Indian Wells
tournament, an event with 8,500,000 USD in prize money all told, the Romanian
tennis players, 24th-seeded Simona Halep and 26th-seeded Sorana
Cirstea take on Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova, and
Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia, respectively.

Dinamo Bucharest football club has reached an agreement
with Czech head-coach Dušan Uhrin junior. Uhrin will replace the Romanian Flavius
Stoican. The Czech head-coach arrived in Bucharest on Wednesday and has already
run an ice-breaking session for his trainees. We recall Dušan
Uhrin junior had been at the helm of Dinamo before, once, during the 2019-2020
competition season and for a second time around, in 2021. Among the teams Dušan
Uhrin junior had been at the helm of, before, there are Bohemians Prague, Mlada
Boleslav, AEL Limassol, Dinamo Tbilisi, Viktoria Plzen, Dinamo Minsk, Slavia
Prague, Politehnica Timişoara, CFR Cluj and Gaz Metan Mediaş. With Flavius
Stoican at the helm, Dinamo ended the regular season on the 14th-position
and will enter Group 2 with 9 points on its record sheet. In its debut match
with Uhrin at the helm, Dinamo travels to Mioveni in the south, for an away
fixture against Rapid Bucharest.

(EN)

10 March 2022
Sports flash

Romanian men’s basketball team CSM CSU Oradea Wednesday
night in Aaarhus sustained an 82-84 away defeat by Danish opponents Bakken Bears.
The fixture counted towards the first leg of the FIBA
Europe Cup’s quarterfinals. The return leg will be hosted by the Antonio Alexe sports hall in Oradea, on March 16. Initially,
CSM CSU Oradea’s quarterfinal opponents was Turkish team Bahceşehir Koleji, but
the schedule was changed because Russian team Avdotor Saratov was excluded from
the competition,

In news from men’s handball, Dinamo Bucharest sustained
a 29-34 away defeat by Polish opponents Lomza Vive Kielce Wednesday night. It was Dinamo Bucharest’s last match counting towards the Champions League’s
Group B. With 8 points on its record sheet and on a par with bottom-of-the table
team Motor Zaporoje, Dinamo Bucharest thus ended its Champions League’s trail being
7th-placed, the last-but-one position in Group B. The first two
teams in descending order secure their straight qualification to the
quarterfinals. The 3rd, the 4th and the 5th-placed teams will have
to compete in playoff fixtures to advance to the League’s quarterfinals.

In the second round of the WTA 1000 Indian Wells
tournament, an event with 8,500,000 USD in prize money all told, the Romanian
tennis players, 24th-seeded Simona Halep and 26th-seeded Sorana
Cirstea take on Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova, and
Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia, respectively.

Dinamo Bucharest football club has reached an agreement
with Czech head-coach Dušan Uhrin junior. Uhrin will replace the Romanian Flavius
Stoican. The Czech head-coach arrived in Bucharest on Wednesday and has already
run an ice-breaking session for his trainees. We recall Dušan
Uhrin junior had been at the helm of Dinamo before, once, during the 2019-2020
competition season and for a second time around, in 2021. Among the teams Dušan
Uhrin junior had been at the helm of, before, there are Bohemians Prague, Mlada
Boleslav, AEL Limassol, Dinamo Tbilisi, Viktoria Plzen, Dinamo Minsk, Slavia
Prague, Politehnica Timişoara, CFR Cluj and Gaz Metan Mediaş. With Flavius
Stoican at the helm, Dinamo ended the regular season on the 14th-position
and will enter Group 2 with 9 points on its record sheet. In its debut match
with Uhrin at the helm, Dinamo travels to Mioveni in the south, for an away
fixture against Rapid Bucharest.

(EN)

10 March 2022