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Romania has two representatives in the quarterfinals of the WTA 250 tennis tournament in Osaka
Florin Orban, 16.10.2025, 13:45
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The Romanian women’s national handball team was defeated by the Norwegian team with a score of 29-27, on Wednesday, in Larvik, in group G1 of the EHF Euro Cup 2026 competition. In what was coach Ovidiu Mihăilă’s debut match, the tricolors did rather well and were even in the lead in the second half of the game. However, Norway had a better end and won. Romania’s top scorer was Sorina Grozav, with 7 goals. For the Norwegians, the most goals were scored by Henny Ella Reistad – 10. The five host teams of the 2026 European Championship, namely Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Turkey, will not play in the competition’s preliminaries. They participate in the EHF Euro Cup, along with Norway, Denmark and Hungary. Romania will play their next match on Sunday, in Craiova, against Poland.
More news from handball, this time from the Champions League for men, where Dinamo Bucharest recorded its fifth consecutive defeat. In a game in Group A, the Romanian champions were defeated away from home by the Danish team Aalborg Handbold by 34 to 28. The most efficient scorer of the Dinamo players was the Cuban Pedro Valdes, with 6 goals. Dinamo will play the next match on October 23, at home, against the Polish team Industria Kielce. The Bucharest group is in 8th and last place in the group, without any points.
We end with the latest from tennis. On Friday, in Osaka, Japan, Romanian players Sorana Cîrstea and Jaqueline Cristian will play in the quarterfinals of the WTA 250 tournament, with 275 thousand dollars in prize money. In the round of 16, Sorana defeated Katie Boulter, of Great Britain, 6-3, 6-1, and Cristian won the game against Jessica Bouzas Maneiro from Spain, 0-6, 6-4, 6-2. In doubles, the Romanian-American pair Gabriela Ruse / Ashlyn Krueger withdrew from the competition before the quarterfinal match with the number two favourites, Kristina Mladenovic, from France, and Taylor Townsend, from the United States. (MI)
