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Tennis. Simona Halep reached the quarterfinals of the Birmingham grass tournament. Seeded second, she defeated Britain's Harriet Dart in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, on Wednesday. Another Romanian player, 6th seed Sorana Cîrstea, also reached the next round, as she defeated Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic 6-1, 6-1.


Handball. Crina Pintea, the pivot of the Romanian women's side, returned to CSM Bucharest for the next two seasons. For the last year, she had been playing with the Hungarian side Győr, who reached as far as the Champions League final, which they lost to the Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand.


Football. The Romanian clubs playing the qualifying matches for the Conference League competition have found out their opponents in the second preliminary round. The Romanian vice-champions FCSB will face the winner of the match between Saburtalo from Georgia and Partizani Tirana from Albania. Romanian Cup winners Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe will play the winner of the match between Olimpija Ljubljana from Slovenia and Differdange 03 from Luxembourg. Universitatea Craiova, Romania's third side in the preliminaries, will play Vllaznia Shkoder, Albania's oldest football club, established in 1919.


The Romanian football champions CFR Cluj are training in Austria, where they are scheduled to play five friendly matches: Orenburg from Russia on 18th June, Red Star Belgrade on the 22nd June, Osijek from Croatia four days later, Mlada Boleslav from the Czech Republic on the 28th of June and, finally, Sparta Prague from the Czech Republic the following day. In July, CFR Cluj will play the Armenian side Pyunik Yerevan in the Champions League first preliminary round. (CM)


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