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The city of Durban, in South
Africa will this weekend play venue for the World Table Tennis Championships a
competition where Romania will be represented by its 17th seeded Bernadette
Szőcs, and 27th – seeded Elizabeta Samara, as well as by Andreea
Dragoman and Adina Diaconu. They will participate in the women’s competition
while Ovidiu Ionescu, Eduard Ionescu and Marius Movileanu will be representing
Romania in the men’s contest. In the women’s doubles, the pair made up by
Bernadette Szőcs and Sofia Polcanova of Austria is fourth-seeded, whereas Dragoman
and Samara are seeded 14th. The 9th-seeded mixed pair Bernadette
Szőcs – Ovidiu Ionescu also stands chances to a good performance in Durban.


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The city of Durban, in South
Africa will this weekend play venue for the World Table Tennis Championships a
competition where Romania will be represented by its 17th seeded Bernadette
Szőcs, and 27th – seeded Elizabeta Samara, as well as by Andreea
Dragoman and Adina Diaconu. They will participate in the women’s competition
while Ovidiu Ionescu, Eduard Ionescu and Marius Movileanu will be representing
Romania in the men’s contest. In the women’s doubles, the pair made up by
Bernadette Szőcs and Sofia Polcanova of Austria is fourth-seeded, whereas Dragoman
and Samara are seeded 14th. The 9th-seeded mixed pair Bernadette
Szőcs – Ovidiu Ionescu also stands chances to a good performance in Durban.




And now the latest from basketball.
On Saturday, the city of Cluj-Napoca will be hosting the third game in the
finals of Romania’s Championships. Local side U-BT will be up against CSM Oradea,
which won the first two home games, 79-73 and 93-83. The finals is played on
the-best-out-of-seven system and the fourth game is due on Monday.


The European Championships in
Rhythmic Gymnastics is presently being hosted by Baku, in Azerbaijan. In the
women’s competition Romania is being represented by Annaliese Dragan and
Andreea Verdes in the individual contest as well as by Alenia Biringer, Catrina
Buniov, Anisia Dragan, Dalia Marin, Claudia Mitan and Antonia Stanescu. The
individual finals and qualifiers are due on Friday while the last finals are
due on Sunday.




This weekend will see the 9th
leg of the Romanian football Superleague with the most important game in
Ovidiu, southeastern Romania, pitching local side Farul against FCSB. Farul tops
the table a point head of FCSB. On Sunday, CFR Cluj plays Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe
on the latter’s home turf, while on Monday Rapid on their own turf in Bucharest
plays Universitatea Craiova.




Friday will see four games, when Hermannstadt
takes on Universitatea Cluj, Chindia Târgovişte plays FC Voluntari, FC Argeş Petrolul
Ploieşti and UTA takes on FC U Craiova. FC Botoşani plays Mioveni on Saturday.


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