A roundup of the the main sporting events and news
Raluca Olaru and Nadia Kichenok have lost the doubles finals of the tennis tournament in Moscow a competition with total prizes of 565,530 dollars. The Romanian-Ukrainian pair conceded defeat on Saturday to Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 4-6, 10-8. Fourth-seeded Olaru and Kicenok conceded defeat to the second-seeded pair in a game that lasted one hour and a half.
This has been Olaru's 24th WTA doubles finals and this tennis player has so far won 11 titles and lost 13 finals. Olaru and Kichenok have this year won the tournaments in Saint Petersburg and Chicago and lost a finals in Bad Homburg.
Maria Ceplinschi of Romania came sixth in the floor finals of the World Gymnastics Championship in the Japanese city of Kitakyushu. The gold went to Mai Murakami of Japan and Angelina Melnikova of Russia ranked second. The third position was occupied by Leanne Wong of the USA
Romanian women's handball side CSM on Sunday obtained the third consecutive win in the present edition of the Champions League, group A. The Romanians secured a clear 30-22 home win against Buducnost Podgorica of Montenegro. CSM's best player proved to be Cristina Neagu who scored six goals. Rostov-Don and Ferencvaros are presently ranking first and second in the group each with 8 points and Team Esbjerg comes third with 7. The Romanians will next be playing Brest Bretagne at home on Saturday.
Let's now have a look at the football matches of the 13th leg of Romania's domestic championship. On Friday FCU Craiova clinched a 2-0 win against Gaz Metan Medias and Universitatea Craiova obtained a 1-0 win in Ploiesti against Chindia Targoviste. On Saturday, FC Arges secured a 2-0 win against FC Voluntari while the matches pitching CS Mioveni against FC Botosani and the Bucharest derby Dinamo versus Rapid ended with the same scoring, one-all. The match in Ovidiu, southern Romania opposing Farul Constanta to FCSB was postponed due to the Covid infections reported in the Bucharest side and will be taking place on November 4th.
Monday will be seeing two games when Academica Clinceni takes on UTA Arad and CFR Cluj plays Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. CFR ranks first in the table with 27 points followed by Universitatea Craiova, with 25.
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