The latest from basketball, handball and tennis
The headline-hitting piece of news last week was the interruption of the national basketball championships. According to Agerpres news agency, the Romanian Basketball Federation's steering committee officially decided the cancellation of the domestic championship, with no team being granted the title and maintaining the rankings that were in place on March 8, 2020.
After the last fixture in the National' men's League, held on March 9, 2020, U-BT Cluj Napoca was at the top of the table, followed by CSM CSU Oradea. Both teams have the same number of points, 33. In the Women's League, holders Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe were at the top of the table with 27 points, followed by vice-champion team CSM Satu Mare, with 24 points. Also, the Romanian Basketball Federation's managing board recommended that clubs should negotiate the amicable termination of all the contracts concluded with the participants in the competition activity, in a bid to avoid further financial litigation.
Also in basketball, we should note that the French newspaper L'Equipe dedicated an article to Romanian-born player Sabrina Ionescu. As of this season, Sabrina will be signed up by New York Liberty, a team in the WNBA Professional Basketball League. Sabrina Ionescu was born in California, into a family of Romanian migrants. She played in the US university championship team Oregon Ducks, with sensational results. Sabrina Ionescu became the first university championship player to have accumulated 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 1,000 assists.
In news from men's handball, Romania's title holders Dinamo Bucureşti has made public the fact that the club has transferred 36-year old international player Valentin Ghionea, a helf-handed basketball player who is fresh from a two-year stint with Portugal's Sporting Lisbon. In the history of the Champions League, Ghionea boasts the greatest number of caps, as well as the greatest number of goals scored. For no less than 13 competition seasons, among the top-flight teams Ghionea was signed up by, there are Dinamo Bucharest, Pick Szeged, HCM Constanţa, Wisla Plock and Sporting Lisbon. All told, Valentin Ghionea scored 444 goals.
Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu will take part in a teams' competition, in the US town of Charleston, in South Carolina. Scheduled to kick off on June 23, the competition will be held behind closed doors, given the COVID-19 pandemic, the international press writes. The Romanian-born Canadian tennis player will be joined by 15 other players, most of whom are Americans.
(Translation by Eugen Nasta)
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