{"id":716224,"date":"2024-03-28T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/?p=716224"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:23:08","slug":"sports-flash-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-flash-196-id716224.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian tennis player Anca Todoni has managed a spectacular 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 win against Spanish challenger Sara Sorribes Tormo at the WTA 125 tournament in Mexico. Todoni, 19, came from qualifications and needed four hours and 14 minutes to achieve the performance against the third-seeded Tormo currently ranking 52<sup>nd<\/sup> in the world ranking. The Romanian got a check of 2,000 dollars and 21 WTA points. She will next take on Julia Riera, a 119 WTA player from Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of the WTA 125 in Antalya, with 115.000 dollars in prize money, Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse was defeated by Katarzyna Kawa of Poland, 3-6, 7-6, 6-2. The 26 year old and 170 WTA Romanian player conceded defeat after three hours during which she failed to capitalize on two game balls in the tiebreak of the second set. Ruse will get a check of 1.250 dollars and 7 WTA points.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian women\u2019s handball side Rapid Bucharest on Wednesday qualified for the Final Four tournament of Romania\u2019s Cup after a 29-23 away win in the quarterfinals against Gloria Buzau. French player Orlane Kanor scored nine goals for Rapid and Serbian An\u0111ela Janju\u0161evi\u0107 scored eight times. Gloria\u2019s best player was the Hungarian international Tamara P\u00e1l with 10 goals scored. The other sides in Romania\u2019s Cup are teams that are already playing in the European Cups such as CSM Bucharest, Gloria Bistri\u0163a and Dun\u0103rea Br\u0103ila. CSM has qualified for the quarter finals of the Champions League while Bistri\u0163a and Br\u0103ila, for the semifinals of the European League.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four highly-performing athletes last week got the Romanian citizenship in order to be included in the country\u2019s national sides. They are chess players Richard Rapport, born in Hungary, Jovana Rapport, former Vojinovi\u0107 of Serbian descent and Kirill Shevchenko of Ukraine. They were joined by Gorguet Maidelines, a former member of the Cuban national judo team.<\/p>\n<p>According to a communiqu\u00e9 of the government in Bucharest, quoted by Agerpres, they applied for citizenship in 2023. Their applications have been approved by the Citizenship Committee with the National Authority for Citizenship, after the legal conditions have been met.<\/p>\n<p>Grand International Masters Richard Rapport and Kirill Shevchenko have already been registered as Romanian players with the International Chess Federation FIDE<\/p>\n<p>They are ranking 27<sup>th<\/sup> and 64<sup>th<\/sup> respectively in a top 100 ranking, which also includes Bogdan Deac on the 44<sup>th<\/sup> position. Kirill Shevchenko has been playing for Romania for more than one year and won silver in 2023 at the European Championship held between March 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 14<sup>th<\/sup> in Vrnjacka Banja, \u00een Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>(bill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian tennis player Anca Todoni has managed a spectacular 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 win against Spanish challenger Sara Sorribes Tormo at the WTA 125 tournament in Mexico. Todoni, 19, came from qualifications and needed four hours and 14 minutes to achieve the performance against the third-seeded Tormo currently ranking 52nd in the world ranking. 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