Sports roundup
The latest from tennis and football
Florin Orban, 06.07.2020, 13:45
Gabriela Ruse this past Sunday was the winner of
the Open demonstrative tennis tournament in Cluj Napoca. In the final, Ruse
outclassed Irina Begu in straight sets, 604, 603. Proving their mettle in the tournament
were six Romanian women tennis players. They were WTA 81st-placed Irina Begu, Jacqueline Cristian,
WTA 162, Irina Bara, WTA 159th-placed, Gabriela Ruse, WTA 177th-placed,
Georgia Craciun, WTA 354th-placed and WTA 387th-placed
Miriam Bulgaru.
30,000 USD were up for grabs in the
aforementioned tournament, the first one Romania has staged since COVID-19
restrictions were lifted countrywide. A mixed doubles demonstrative match
concluded the tournament, as Simona Halep and Horia Tecau took on Marius Copil
and Gabriela Ruse. It took the former pair ninety minutes to grab their win,
6-3, 6-4. Halep and Tecău will represent Romania in the
Olympic Games in Tokyo, in the mixed doubles event. Matches were played in
empty arenas and enjoyed a live transmission provided by a specialized TV station. Matches could also be accessed on the
tournament’s Facebook page.
In news from football, the Romanian Sergiu Hanca scored one
goal for KS Krakow, the team that this past Saturday snatched a 3-nil away win
against Lechia Gdansk, in a Group 1 match counting towards the Polish
championship’s 34th round. Hancu thus added the 9th goal
to his record sheet, in 32 games he has played so far. Full-back Cornel Râpă and midfielder Sergiu Hancam were
full-timers on the pitch in the aforementioned fixture.
Romanian striker George Puşcaş scored one goal and provided
two assists this past Saturday, in a match counting towards the 41st
round in English football championship’s second League, pitting Reading against
red lantern team Luton Town. In Reading’s 5-nil away win against Luton, Puscas
scored the fourth goal with a header. Also, Puscas twice provided assists for Reading’s
Ivorian footballer Yakou Meite, who scored no less than four goals for his
team. In the 32 matches he has played so far, Puscas scored 10 goals. In the
Second league, Leeds United are at top of the table, with 78 points, while
Puscas’s team Reading FC are second-placed, with 52.
In the domestic championship’s Group 1, on Sunday,
Politehnica Iasi grabbed a 3-1 win against Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, while
Academica Clinceni sustained a 1-3 defeat by Dinamo Bucharest. Group 2’s sixth
round saw Gaz metan medias losing to Universitatea Craiova, 1-2 on Friday. On
Saturday, FCSB
were held by FC Botosani to a 1-all draw. On Sunday, Astra Giurgiu drew against
CFR Cluj, 2-all. Universitatea Craiova are at the top of the table, with 38
points, CFR Cluj are the runner-up team, with 37, while 3rd-placed
are Astra Giurgiu, with 29. Coming in descending order are FCSB and FC
Botosani, each with 28 points, and Gaz Metan Medias, with 25.
(Translation by Eugen Nasta)
