Andrei Pavel

Romanian-Dutch duo Horia Tecau/ Jean-Julien Rojer won the men's doubles final of the 2,082,655-EUR Swiss Indoors ATP tournament in Basel, Switzerland, after defeating US double Taylor Fritz /N.4 Tecau-Rojer prevailed in 69 minutes, thus sealing their qualification for the ATP Finals. Tecau-Rojer previously reached the Basel semi-finals in 2015 and 2016.

The Romanian-Dutch duo Horia Tecau / Jean-Julien Rojer qualified for the doubles final of the ATP Masters 1000 Madrid tennis tournament, with total prizes worth 6,536,160 euro, after defeating the pair made up of Wesley Koolhof (Netherlands) / Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece), with a score of 6- 4, 5-7, 10-5.

The Romanian tennis player and once again No. 1 WTA Simona Halep has been granted on Monday night the Honorary Citizen of Bucharest title by General Mayor Gabriela Firea, in a ceremony at Excelsior Theatre.

Romania has 3-0 against Israel in the tennis Davis Cup, after the doubles match between Florin Mergea/Horia Tecau and cup Bar Tzuf Botzer/Edan Leshem ended 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday.

Team Romania around non-playing captain Andrei Pavel (centre)
Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES FLOW

Andrei Pavel, the captain of Romania's Davis Cup tennis team said Tuesday the team would be honoured to be cheered on by tennis player Simona Halep, currently number three in the world's professional ranking, and by Romania's President Klaus Iohannis, an amateur tennis player himself, in their meet with Israel.

Photo credit: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE