{"id":121316,"date":"2020-11-02T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/sports-roundup-339-121316.html"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:08:05","slug":"sports-roundup-339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-roundup-339-id121316.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Let&#8217;s begin with tennis. Romania&#8217;s Alexandra&#13;<br \/>\nCadan\u0163u on Sunday won the singles title of the tennis tournament in Heraklion,&#13;<br \/>\non the Greek island of Crete. In the final, she defeated another Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nplayer, Andreea Amalia Ro\u015fca, in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. 30-year-old Alexandra&#13;<br \/>\nCadan\u0163u, who is ranked 267 in the WTA standings, last won a singles title in&#13;<br \/>\n2015, at the ITF tournament in Gala\u0163i, eastern Romania. The all-Romanian pair Andreea&#13;<br \/>\nAmalia Ro\u015fca and Ioana Loredana Ro\u015fca, seeded first, won the doubles title of&#13;<br \/>\nthe ITF tournament in Heraklion, defeating the Italian pair Melania Delai and Dalila&#13;<br \/>\nSpiteri in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3. Also in tennis, the Romanian players  Oana&#13;<br \/>\nGeorgeta Simion and Oana Gavril\u0103 on Saturday won the doubles title of the ITF&#13;<br \/>\ntournament in Pazardjik, Bulgaria. They defeated the Bulgarian-US pair Katerina&#13;<br \/>\nDimitrova and Isabele Kouzmanov in three sets, 6-7, 6-4, 10-4. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>CSM Bucharest are the only team with a maximum number of&#13;<br \/>\npoints in the domestic women&#8217;s handball championship. In their latest match, they&#13;<br \/>\ncategorically defeated HC Zal\u0103u 28-21. Romania&#8217;s second team playing in the&#13;<br \/>\nChampions League, namely SCM R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea, where 12 players tested positive for&#13;<br \/>\nCovid, were only able to play with 7 players, two goal keepers and two junior&#13;<br \/>\nplayers. Under the circumstances, SCM R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea lost their first match in&#13;<br \/>\nthe current edition of the women&#8217;s handball National League, being defeated&#13;<br \/>\n31-32 by Minaur Baia Mare. In other fixtures, CS M\u0103gura Cisn\u0103die defeated CSM&#13;<br \/>\nGala\u0163i 27-19; CSU Cluj-Napoca lost to CS Activ Prahova Ploie\u015fti 19-24; ACS&#13;<br \/>\nCri\u015ful Chi\u015fineu lost to CS Dacia Mioveni 2012 27-30; SCM Craiova lost to SCM&#13;<br \/>\nGloria Buz\u0103u 24-25; and HC Dun\u0103rea Br\u0103ila defeated CS Rapid Bucharest 22-21. CSM&#13;<br \/>\nBucharest are in first place in the current standings with 12 points, followed&#13;<br \/>\nby CS Minaur Baia Mare with 10 points, and SCM R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea, HC Dun\u0103rea&#13;<br \/>\nBr\u0103ila, CS M\u0103gura Cisn\u0103die, CS Gloria 2018 Bistri\u0163a-N\u0103s\u0103ud and SCM Gloria Buz\u0103u,&#13;<br \/>\nwith 9 points each.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>And now the latest results from the 9th leg&#13;<br \/>\nof the domestic football championship. In the opening leg match on Friday, FC&#13;<br \/>\nArge\u015f defeated FC Voluntari, 2-1. On Saturday, Academica Clinceni defeated&#13;<br \/>\nSepsi Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe 2-nil; FC Boto\u015fani lost to UTA Arad 2-3; and FC&#13;<br \/>\nHermannstadt lost to Universitatea Craiova nil-1. On Sunday, FC Viitorul&#13;<br \/>\nConstan\u0163a were declared the winner of the match against CSM Politehnica Ia\u015fi&#13;<br \/>\ndue to defective floodlighting during a match played on the latter&#8217;s home turf.&#13;<br \/>\nWhen the match was suspended, Ia\u015fi were leading 2-1. Also on Sunday, CFR Cluj&#13;<br \/>\nlost at home against Metan Media\u015f, 1-2. The match between Dinamo Bucharest and Astra&#13;<br \/>\nGiurgiu was postponed for 14th November as the latter side had&#13;<br \/>\nplayers testing positive for Covid. Ahead of the leg&#8217;s final match between Chindia&#13;<br \/>\nT\u00e2rgovi\u015fte and FCSB on Monday evening, Universitatea Craiova are in the first&#13;<br \/>\nplace in the standings with 24 points, followed by FCSB and CFR Cluj, with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news from Romanian sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":119726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[28907],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-121316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sports Roundup - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-roundup-339-id121316.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sports Roundup - 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