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Florin Orban, 20.09.2021, 13:45

The womens handball team CSM Bucharest was defeated by the Russian team Rostov Don 30-27, in a game played on Saturday in the Dinamo Hall in Bucharest. It was CSM’s second consecutive defeat in the current edition of the Champions League. Last week, in the first stage, the Romanian team lost, away from home, to the Danish team Esbjerg, 21 to 22.

In the Davis Cup, this weekend, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s mens tennis team defeated the Portuguese team 3 to 1 in the first round of World Group I. On Saturday, in the first singles match, Joao Sousa defeated Filip Cristian Jianu 6-3, 7-5, and in the second match of the day, Marius Copil defeated Gastao Elias 6-4, 6-3. On Sunday, in the doubles, the pair Marius Copil / Horia Tecău defeated the pair Nuno Borges / Joao Sousa with 6-4, 6-3. Then, Marius Copil defeated Sousa 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, and Romania goes further to the playoffs of the Davis Cup final tournament.

The Romanian footballers Nicolae Stanciu and Valentin Mihăilă had a good play, at the weekend, for the teams they play for. Valentin Mihăilă scored the goal of Parma that was nevertheless defeated at home by Cremonese 2-1, on Sunday, in the fourth round of the Italian Second League. Stanciu scored his first goal of the season for Slavia Prague, in the away matched played against Bohemians Prague. The match won by Slavia Prague with the score 5-1 counts for the eighth round of the Czech football championship. Stanciu scored from a penalty kick in the 56th minute.

At the weekend, matches were played as part of the ninth round of the Romanian First League Football Championship. On Friday, FC Voluntari defeated CS Mioveni at home 4-0, and Gaz Metan Mediaş won in Bucharest, against Rapid, 2 to 1. On Saturday, in Ploieşti, Chindia Târgovişte defeated Farul Constanţa 2-0, and FCSB beat FC U Craiova 1948, in an away match, 1-0. On Sunday, FC Argeş won 1-0 the game played, in Bucharest, with Academica from Clinceni, then, in Sfântu Gheorghe, Sepsi ended in a draw, 0 – 0, with UTA Arad. In the last game of the day, FC Botoşani beat Dinamo 2 to 1. Monday will see the last match of the round in Bucharest: CFR Cluj versus Universitatea Craiova. In the ranking, Cluj is on the first place, with 21 points followed by FC Botoşani with 20 points. (LS)