{"id":996793,"date":"2026-03-20T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=996793"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:35:03","slug":"sports-weekend-511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-weekend-511-id996793.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Romanian tennis player, Gabriela Ruse, secured a two-set win 7-5, 7-6 against Antonia Ruzic of Croatia on Thursday, in the first round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Miami, with more than 9 million dollars in prize money. In the next round the Romanian will be up against the 15<sup>th<\/sup> seeded Madison Keys of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of the playoffs for the World Handball Championship in 2027, the Romanian national side clinched a 37-32 win against Turkiye. The game took place in Bolu and the best Romanian scorer was Andrei Buzle, with 8 goals scored. The return game will take place in Buz\u0103u, central Romania on March 22. The winner of the double match will be playing Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The European women\u2019s handball competitions are also to be resumed.<\/p>\n<p>The Champions League will be seeing the first round of the play-offs for qualifying for the quarter finals. On Sunday, Romanian side, Gloria Bistrita will go to Ikast in Denmark. Gloria comes after a sensational win in the first Romanian league against the en titre champions CSM Bucharest, which they outperformed 21-18. This has been CSM\u2019s first defeat since Montenegrin Bojana Popovici came to the team\u2019s helm. CSM is directly qualified for the Champions League\u2019s quarterfinals. The EHF European League will see its first round of the quarterfinals and Rapid Bucharest, the only Romanian side in the competition will play in Denmark against Viborg on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend will see the matches counting towards the second leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. On Thursday, Universitatea Craiova clinched a 1-0 win against Dinamo Bucharest and advanced to the first position in the ranking. On Friday, in Cluj, local side CFR will be up against Rapid Bucharest. On Saturday in Mioveni, local side FC Arge\u015f will be playing Universitatea Cluj. On Friday FCSB will be meeting UTA of Arad while on Saturday in Clinceni, Metaloglobus plays Petrolul Ploie\u015fti. In Miercurea Ciuc, central Romania, local team Csikszereda will be up against Farul Constan\u0163a. On Sunday in Sibiu, Hermannstadt, on their own turf, will be taking on FC Boto\u015fani and the leg will end on Monday with the match in Slobozia pitching Unirea against O\u0163elul Gala\u0163i.<\/p>\n<p>(bill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romanian tennis player, Gabriela Ruse, secured a two-set win 7-5, 7-6 against Antonia Ruzic of Croatia on Thursday, in the first round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Miami, with more than 9 million dollars in prize money. 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