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Romanian tennis player
\nSorana C\u00eerstea this past Wednesday as part of the first round of the WTA 1000 tennis
\ntournament in Rome, an event with 3, 600, 000 Euros in prize money, defeated US
\nopponent Katie Volynets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sorana had a hard time defeated Katie,
\nafter two hours and 25 minutes of play. In the second round, Sorana will face WTA 20th-placed tennis player,
\nLatvia’s Jelena Ostapenko. Another Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome
\ntournament, Gabriela Ruse, had no problem defeating Czech opponent Linda
\nFruhvirtova, 6-1, 6-nil. Gabriela will next take on WTA 15th-placed tennis player, player, Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia. The third Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome tournament, Ana Bogdan, has also emerged as a first-round winner, defeating Japan’s Nao Hibino, 7-5, 6-nil. In the second round, Bogdan
\ntakes on WTA number 4 tennis player, the French Caroline Garcia. <\/p>\n
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The World Judo Championship
\nis underway in Qatar’s Doha. So far, the Romanian delegation has had a lackluster
\nperformance. On Wednesday, in the 63-kilogram category, in the first round, Florentina Ivanescu sustained
\na defeat by Korean opponent Chaewon Shin. For the sixth time around, Clarisse Agbegnenou of France won the world title in the 63-kilogram
\ncategory. In the final, Clarisse defeated Slovenia’s Andreja Leski through
\nippon. The bronze medals went to Hungarian judoka Szofi \u00d6zbas and the Dutch Joanne
\nvan Lieshout.<\/p>\n
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The ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup 2023 will be
\nheld in Hungary’s Szeged, from Thursday and all through to Sunday. The world
\nchampion in the men’s C-1 1,000m sprint canoeing event, the Romanian Catalin
\nChirila, is among the participants. Chirila
\nis one the Romanian rowers standing great chances to win an Olympic medal in
\nthe 2024 edition of the Paris Olympics. <\/p>\n
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In news from football, in a derby
\nconfrontation counting towards the Romanian Second League’s Group 1, on
\nWednesday Poli Ia\u015fi grabbed a 5-1 home win against Steaua Bucharest. Mathematically
\nspeaking, Poli Iasi has already been promoted to the Superleague. Runner-up
\nteam Steaua is lawfully denied promotion irrespective of its position according
\nto the Second league’s final rankings. <\/p>\n
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