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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romania’s national rugby team this past Saturday in Bucharest defeated Portugal, 37 to 27. The match counted towards the 2nd round of Rugby Europe Championship 2022. Romania’s Dragoș Ser, Ovidiu Cojocaru, Alexandru Savin and André Gorin scored four tries. Adding to the national squad’s points was Ionel Melinte. He converted all the tries as well as three penalty kicks. According to the competition’s as-it-stands table, Romania is 2nd placed, with 8 points, second only to Spain, with 9 points. All told, Rugby Europe Championship’s 2021 and 2022 editions are a qualification criterion for the 2023 edition of the World Cup.



    Romanian tennis player Irina Begu last week reached as far as the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Sankt Petersburg, an event with 768 thousand USD in prize money. In the semifinals, top-seeded Greece challenger Maria Sakkari defeated Begu, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4. In turn, Sakkari lost to Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit in the final this past Sunday.



    In news from women’s handball, CSM Bucharest’s scheduled Champions League fixture against Rostov Don this past weekend was postponed because of the COVID-19 infections reported for CSM Bucharest. In the European League’s group C, on Saturday, Magura Cisnadie was trounced by Norwegian team Storhamar, 35-18. Măgura Cisnadie are highly unlikely to advance to the quarterfinals. We recall that at the green table Magura Cisnadie lost the away game they did not play against Lada Togliati, nil-10, because of the COVID-19 infections. In Group D on Sunday, SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea drew, 30-all, in the away match against Danish opponents Viborg. SCM have thus booked their ticket for the European League’s quarterfinals. Also on Sunday, in Group B this time, Minaur Baia Mare drew in the away game they played against Polish team Zaglebie Lublin, 23-all. Minaur climbed up to the runner-up position in the table and are highly likely to advance to the competition’s next stage.



    Matches counting towards League One’s football championship were played this past weekend. On Friday, in Mioveni, in the south, Rapid Bucharest and Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe drew, 1-all. On Saturday, in Ovidiu, in the south-east, Farul Constanta defeated FC Voluntari, 3-all, while in Medias, in the west, the local side Gaz Metan sustained a 1-2 defeat by CFR Cluj. On Sunday, FC Arges secured a 1-nil home win against Mioveni. In Arad, in the West, UTA held Dinamo Bucharest to a blank draw. In Bucharest, FCSB secured a 3-2 win against Chindia Targoviste. Four rounds ahead of the final of the regular season, CFR Cluj are at the top of the League One table. FCSB are the runner-up team, with 6 points less than leader CFR.


    (EN)



  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romania’s national rugby team this past Saturday in Bucharest defeated Portugal, 37 to 27. The match counted towards the 2nd round of Rugby Europe Championship 2022. Romania’s Dragoș Ser, Ovidiu Cojocaru, Alexandru Savin and André Gorin scored four tries. Adding to the national squad’s points was Ionel Melinte. He converted all the tries as well as three penalty kicks. According to the competition’s as-it-stands table, Romania is 2nd placed, with 8 points, second only to Spain, with 9 points. All told, Rugby Europe Championship’s 2021 and 2022 editions are a qualification criterion for the 2023 edition of the World Cup.



    Romanian tennis player Irina Begu last week reached as far as the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Sankt Petersburg, an event with 768 thousand USD in prize money. In the semifinals, top-seeded Greece challenger Maria Sakkari defeated Begu, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4. In turn, Sakkari lost to Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit in the final this past Sunday.



    In news from women’s handball, CSM Bucharest’s scheduled Champions League fixture against Rostov Don this past weekend was postponed because of the COVID-19 infections reported for CSM Bucharest. In the European League’s group C, on Saturday, Magura Cisnadie was trounced by Norwegian team Storhamar, 35-18. Măgura Cisnadie are highly unlikely to advance to the quarterfinals. We recall that at the green table Magura Cisnadie lost the away game they did not play against Lada Togliati, nil-10, because of the COVID-19 infections. In Group D on Sunday, SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea drew, 30-all, in the away match against Danish opponents Viborg. SCM have thus booked their ticket for the European League’s quarterfinals. Also on Sunday, in Group B this time, Minaur Baia Mare drew in the away game they played against Polish team Zaglebie Lublin, 23-all. Minaur climbed up to the runner-up position in the table and are highly likely to advance to the competition’s next stage.



    Matches counting towards League One’s football championship were played this past weekend. On Friday, in Mioveni, in the south, Rapid Bucharest and Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe drew, 1-all. On Saturday, in Ovidiu, in the south-east, Farul Constanta defeated FC Voluntari, 3-all, while in Medias, in the west, the local side Gaz Metan sustained a 1-2 defeat by CFR Cluj. On Sunday, FC Arges secured a 1-nil home win against Mioveni. In Arad, in the West, UTA held Dinamo Bucharest to a blank draw. In Bucharest, FCSB secured a 3-2 win against Chindia Targoviste. Four rounds ahead of the final of the regular season, CFR Cluj are at the top of the League One table. FCSB are the runner-up team, with 6 points less than leader CFR.


    (EN)



  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week


    Attention-grabbing in terms of tennis
    competitions in the past two weeks has been the year’s first Grand Slam tournament,
    the Australian Open. However, among
    the other smaller events as part of the ITF circuit, there was the tournament held
    in Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France. It was a tournament with a total sum of 60,000 USD
    in prize money. Romanian tennis player Ana Bogdan was the winner. Reason enough
    for Radio Romania International to designate Ana Bogdan the Athlete of the week.


    Top-seeded in the Andrézieux-Bouthéon
    tournament were French tennis players Clara Burel and Océane Dodin. Swiss tennis player Ylena In‑Albon eliminated Burel from the very
    first round. As for Dodin, she sustained a quarterfinal defeat by 6th-seeded
    Anna Blinkova of Russia. Blinkova reached as far as the final, where she went against
    third-seeded player, Ana Bogdan. The Romanian’s trail ahead of the semifinal was
    fairly accessible, since Bogdan went against significantly lower-ranked
    opponents according to the world standings. However, it took Ana Bogdan three
    sets to secure her semifinal win against WTA 199th-ranked opponent, Jessica
    Ponchet of France. The Romanian had no problem defeating Blinkova in the final,
    7-5, 6-3, after one hour and 46 minutes of play. The win in France has been Ana
    Bogdan’s second most important feat of her career so far. We recall that in
    2019 Bogdan won the ITF Dubai tournament, an event with 100,000 USD in prize
    money.


    Ana
    Bogdan was born in Sinaia, on November 25, 1992. She took up tennis when she
    was 4. Ana played in her first ITF circuit tournaments in 2007. However, it was
    not until 2014 that Ana Bogdan advanced to a WTA tournament. In Bad Gastein, Ana
    Bogdan reached as far as the second round. Over 2016 and 2018 she reached as far
    as the semi-finals of several WTA tournaments, a couple of times. Ana Bogdan
    was best-placed according to the WTA rankings in June 2018, when she was 59th-ranked.
    The as-it-stands WTA table saw Ana Bogdan being 101st-placed.
    The Romanian climbed up 15 notches, after her win in Andrézieux-Bouthéon.




    (EN)

  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week


    Attention-grabbing in terms of tennis
    competitions in the past two weeks has been the year’s first Grand Slam tournament,
    the Australian Open. However, among
    the other smaller events as part of the ITF circuit, there was the tournament held
    in Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France. It was a tournament with a total sum of 60,000 USD
    in prize money. Romanian tennis player Ana Bogdan was the winner. Reason enough
    for Radio Romania International to designate Ana Bogdan the Athlete of the week.


    Top-seeded in the Andrézieux-Bouthéon
    tournament were French tennis players Clara Burel and Océane Dodin. Swiss tennis player Ylena In‑Albon eliminated Burel from the very
    first round. As for Dodin, she sustained a quarterfinal defeat by 6th-seeded
    Anna Blinkova of Russia. Blinkova reached as far as the final, where she went against
    third-seeded player, Ana Bogdan. The Romanian’s trail ahead of the semifinal was
    fairly accessible, since Bogdan went against significantly lower-ranked
    opponents according to the world standings. However, it took Ana Bogdan three
    sets to secure her semifinal win against WTA 199th-ranked opponent, Jessica
    Ponchet of France. The Romanian had no problem defeating Blinkova in the final,
    7-5, 6-3, after one hour and 46 minutes of play. The win in France has been Ana
    Bogdan’s second most important feat of her career so far. We recall that in
    2019 Bogdan won the ITF Dubai tournament, an event with 100,000 USD in prize
    money.


    Ana
    Bogdan was born in Sinaia, on November 25, 1992. She took up tennis when she
    was 4. Ana played in her first ITF circuit tournaments in 2007. However, it was
    not until 2014 that Ana Bogdan advanced to a WTA tournament. In Bad Gastein, Ana
    Bogdan reached as far as the second round. Over 2016 and 2018 she reached as far
    as the semi-finals of several WTA tournaments, a couple of times. Ana Bogdan
    was best-placed according to the WTA rankings in June 2018, when she was 59th-ranked.
    The as-it-stands WTA table saw Ana Bogdan being 101st-placed.
    The Romanian climbed up 15 notches, after her win in Andrézieux-Bouthéon.




    (EN)

  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week


    Simona Halep has had an auspicious start in 2022. Simona
    has reigned supreme in the very first tournament of the year she competed in, the Melbourne
    Summer Set 1, an event with 239, 477 USD in prize money. Also, it was the first
    success for Romanian sports in the New Year. Reason enough for Radio Romania International
    to designate Simona Halep the Athlete of the Week.


    In Melbourne, Simona entered the main draw from her
    WTA 20th-position. She was 2nd-seeded, while Japan’s Naomi Osaka was
    top seeded. In the first round, Halep defeated Australia’s Destanee Aiava, who
    came straight from the qualifiers, 6-4, 6-2. Then Halep defeated a Romanian, Elena-Gabriela
    Ruse, 6-2, 6-1. In the quarterfinals, Halep had a hard time defeating the 6th-seeded
    player in Melbourne, the Swiss Victorija Golubovic, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. In the
    semi-final, Halep had an easy job defeating former WTA number 1, China’s Qinwen
    Zheng, 6-3, 6-2. Then the final she played against the 3rd-seeded
    tennis player in Melbourne, Russian challenger Veronika Kudermetova followed;
    Simona Halep won, 6-2, 6-3. The win in Melbourne earned Halep the 15th
    position according to the WTA rankings.


    Simona Halep is one of the best players in Romanian
    tennis. Born on September 27, 1991, in Constanta, Halep made her debut as a pro
    in 2006, when she proved her mettle in her first ITF circuit tournaments. In
    2010, Halep was included among the world’s top 100 tennis players. In August
    2014, Simona Halep was WTA second-placed, at that time the best
    position ever for a Romanian woman tennis player. From October 2017 and all through
    to January 2018, Halep was at the top of the WTA rankings. In February 2018,
    Simona Halep resumed her position at the top of the table. She stayed there until
    early 2019, after the Australian Open. Halep was at the top of
    the WTA rankings for 64 weeks. The Romanian’s outstanding record includes the
    winning of two Grand Slam tournaments, in Roland Garros, in 2018, and in
    Wimbledon, in 2019.

    (EN)



  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week


    Simona Halep has had an auspicious start in 2022. Simona
    has reigned supreme in the very first tournament of the year she competed in, the Melbourne
    Summer Set 1, an event with 239, 477 USD in prize money. Also, it was the first
    success for Romanian sports in the New Year. Reason enough for Radio Romania International
    to designate Simona Halep the Athlete of the Week.


    In Melbourne, Simona entered the main draw from her
    WTA 20th-position. She was 2nd-seeded, while Japan’s Naomi Osaka was
    top seeded. In the first round, Halep defeated Australia’s Destanee Aiava, who
    came straight from the qualifiers, 6-4, 6-2. Then Halep defeated a Romanian, Elena-Gabriela
    Ruse, 6-2, 6-1. In the quarterfinals, Halep had a hard time defeating the 6th-seeded
    player in Melbourne, the Swiss Victorija Golubovic, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. In the
    semi-final, Halep had an easy job defeating former WTA number 1, China’s Qinwen
    Zheng, 6-3, 6-2. Then the final she played against the 3rd-seeded
    tennis player in Melbourne, Russian challenger Veronika Kudermetova followed;
    Simona Halep won, 6-2, 6-3. The win in Melbourne earned Halep the 15th
    position according to the WTA rankings.


    Simona Halep is one of the best players in Romanian
    tennis. Born on September 27, 1991, in Constanta, Halep made her debut as a pro
    in 2006, when she proved her mettle in her first ITF circuit tournaments. In
    2010, Halep was included among the world’s top 100 tennis players. In August
    2014, Simona Halep was WTA second-placed, at that time the best
    position ever for a Romanian woman tennis player. From October 2017 and all through
    to January 2018, Halep was at the top of the WTA rankings. In February 2018,
    Simona Halep resumed her position at the top of the table. She stayed there until
    early 2019, after the Australian Open. Halep was at the top of
    the WTA rankings for 64 weeks. The Romanian’s outstanding record includes the
    winning of two Grand Slam tournaments, in Roland Garros, in 2018, and in
    Wimbledon, in 2019.

    (EN)



  • Radio Romania International Sports Club

    Radio Romania International Sports Club

    The Transylvanian Open women’s
    tennis tournament, venued by the BT Arena in Cluj-Napoca, has drawn to a close.
    Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit is the winner of the tournament as in the final,
    Kontaveit defeated top-seeded Simona Halep, 6-2, 6-3. The tournament had 235, 238
    USD in prize money.


    25-year-old Kontaveit is
    WTA 14th-placed and it took her only one hour and ten minutes of
    play to beat Halep. The win in Cluj-Napoca booked Kontaveit the ticket for the Champions Tournament. Anett Kontaveit received a cheque worth 29,000 USD .200 de dolari and
    280 WTA points, while Halep received a cheque worth 16, 398 USD and 180 WTA
    points. For 30-year-old Simona Halep, it was the 40-th WTA tournament final of
    her career. So far, Halep has won 22 and lost 18 final confrontations.


    Notwithstanding, Romania
    had a winner in the Transylvania Open. Pairing up with Georgia’s Ekaterina
    Gorgodze in the women’s doubles final, Irina Bara grabbed a 4-6, 6-1, 11-9 win
    against Serbian-Dutch pair made of Aleksandra Krunic and Lesley Pattinama
    Kerkhove. It is the first title for Bara and Gorgodze, who received a cheque
    worth 10, 300 USD and 280 WTA points according to the doubles’ rankings. Krunic and Kerkhove received a cheque worth 6, 000
    USD and 180 WTA points.


    According to the WTA women’s
    singles rankings, four Romanian competitors can be found among the world’s top
    100 tennis players. Simona Halep is 22nd-placed while Sorana Cîrstea
    is 38th-ranked. Irina Begu and Gabriela Ruse are 60th and
    86th-placed, respectively. Jaqueline Cristian is 104th-ranked
    and Ana Bogdan is 108th-placed, so they are a whisker away from earning
    a place among the world’s top 100 players.


    Australian Ashleigh
    Barty is at the top pf the WTA rankings, with 7, 701 points.


    Four Romanian tennis
    players have already been included in the world’s top 100 players according to
    the WTA doubles rankings. They are Raluca Olaru, who is 36th-placed,
    Monica Niculescu, who is 39th-placed, Irina-Camelia Begu, who is 61st and Andreea Mitu, who is 100th-placed according to the WTA rankings.

    (Translation by Eugen Nasta)


  • Radio Romania International Sports Club

    Radio Romania International Sports Club

    The Transylvanian Open women’s
    tennis tournament, venued by the BT Arena in Cluj-Napoca, has drawn to a close.
    Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit is the winner of the tournament as in the final,
    Kontaveit defeated top-seeded Simona Halep, 6-2, 6-3. The tournament had 235, 238
    USD in prize money.


    25-year-old Kontaveit is
    WTA 14th-placed and it took her only one hour and ten minutes of
    play to beat Halep. The win in Cluj-Napoca booked Kontaveit the ticket for the Champions Tournament. Anett Kontaveit received a cheque worth 29,000 USD .200 de dolari and
    280 WTA points, while Halep received a cheque worth 16, 398 USD and 180 WTA
    points. For 30-year-old Simona Halep, it was the 40-th WTA tournament final of
    her career. So far, Halep has won 22 and lost 18 final confrontations.


    Notwithstanding, Romania
    had a winner in the Transylvania Open. Pairing up with Georgia’s Ekaterina
    Gorgodze in the women’s doubles final, Irina Bara grabbed a 4-6, 6-1, 11-9 win
    against Serbian-Dutch pair made of Aleksandra Krunic and Lesley Pattinama
    Kerkhove. It is the first title for Bara and Gorgodze, who received a cheque
    worth 10, 300 USD and 280 WTA points according to the doubles’ rankings. Krunic and Kerkhove received a cheque worth 6, 000
    USD and 180 WTA points.


    According to the WTA women’s
    singles rankings, four Romanian competitors can be found among the world’s top
    100 tennis players. Simona Halep is 22nd-placed while Sorana Cîrstea
    is 38th-ranked. Irina Begu and Gabriela Ruse are 60th and
    86th-placed, respectively. Jaqueline Cristian is 104th-ranked
    and Ana Bogdan is 108th-placed, so they are a whisker away from earning
    a place among the world’s top 100 players.


    Australian Ashleigh
    Barty is at the top pf the WTA rankings, with 7, 701 points.


    Four Romanian tennis
    players have already been included in the world’s top 100 players according to
    the WTA doubles rankings. They are Raluca Olaru, who is 36th-placed,
    Monica Niculescu, who is 39th-placed, Irina-Camelia Begu, who is 61st and Andreea Mitu, who is 100th-placed according to the WTA rankings.

    (Translation by Eugen Nasta)