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Florin Orban, 10.06.2022, 13:45
The Romanian tennis player Irina Bara was defeated by China’s Qinwen Zheng, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0, on Thursday in the Round of 16 of the WTA tournament in Valencia, which has total prizes worth 115,000 dollars. In the doubles, Bara and Ekaterine Gorgodze from Georgia, who are the contests top seeds, will play in the semifinals on Saturday against the Spanish pair made up of Aliona Bolsova and Rebeka Masarova.
Seven Romanian tennis players are on the main table of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament, which will start on June 27, namely Simona Halep, Sorana Cîrstea, Gabriela Ruse, Irina Begu, Ana Bogdan, Irina Bara and Mihaela Buzărnescu. Another four tennis players from Romania will play in the qualifiers, namely Gabriela-Talabă Lee, Alexandra Cadanțu-Ignatik, Laura Ioana Paar and Cristina Dinu. This year, the winners of the singles contests, both in the men’s and women’s competitions, will get record prizes of £2 million. The total prizes for this year’s edition amount to over £40 million, 11% more than in last years edition.
Now news from football. Romania’s national football team will meet on Saturday, in Bucharest, the team of Finland, in the third match of the current edition of the Nations League. The Scandinavian team leads in the group 3 League B standings with four points out of two matches. The Romanian footballers are ranked last after losing 0-2 to Montenegro last Saturday, then 0-1 on Tuesday in the match with Bosnia-Herzegovina. After the match against Finland, the Romanian team will meet, also in Bucharest, on Tuesday, the team of Montenegro and they need victories in both matches to still hope for a place in the top 2 ranking in the group.
We now move on to volleyball. Romanias mens team will face, on Sunday, in Galaţi, the Albanian team, in the last game of group B of the Silver League competition. The Romanians are on first position in the group and are already qualified to the final four tournament of the competition, which will take place in Hungary, on 18 and 19 June. (LS)
