Filip Petrusev

Serbia beat Georgia in EuroBasket 2025 qualifier

TBILISI - Serbia beat Georgia 76-63 in a EuroBasket 2025 Qualifiers Group G Game Day 2 encounter in Tbilisi on Monday evening.

Marko Guduric led Serbia to victory with 16 points and Vanja Marinkovic, Aleksa Avramovic and Filip Petrusev added 15, 12 and 11 points, respectively.

Tornike Shengelia stood out for Georgia with 17 points and Joe Thomasson added 15 points.

Win for Olympiakos in Munich, loss for Panathinaikos at Kaunas

Olympiakos scored an important road win on Thursday at Bayern, while Panathinaikos fell to host Zalgiris at Kaunas on Friday, in the second half of the week's double serving for the Euroleague.

The Reds overcame Bayern with a 76-72 score in Munich, braving their numerous absences to improve their record to 14-11.

Serbia crush Lithuania to advance to basketball world cup semis

MANILA - Serbia are through to the semi-finals of the FIBA Basketball World Cup after a convincing 87-68 (24-25, 25-13, 24-17, 14-13) win over Lithuania in the quarter-finals in Manila on Tuesday.

Bogdan Bogdanovic led the scoring for Serbia with 21 points and Filip Petrusev added 17.

Tadas Sedekerskis stood out for Lithuania with 14 points.

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Serbia beat Dominican Republic to reach basketball world cup quarter-finals

MANILA - Serbia are through to the quarter-finals of the FIBA Basketball World Cup after beating the Dominican Republic 112-79 (29-15, 27-20, 31-18, 25-26) in the second phase of the competition's group stage on Sunday.

Bogdan Bogdanovic led Serbia with 20 points, Vanja Marinkovic and Nikola Milutinov each scored 16 points and Filip Petrusev added 14 points.

Lessort made statement after the derby VIDEO

Partizan basketball players beat Red Star in the "eternal" derby for the leading position in the ABA league in "Stark Arena" in front of more than 17,000 fans.
Mathias Lessort played a fantastic match and scored 27 points with 8 rebounds and an index of 38, but this brilliant game was overshadowed by the incident when he hit Filip Petrusev at the end of the game.

Serbian under 18 basketball team become European champions

Serbia beat Latvia 99-80 (32-20, 22-21, 25-24, 20-25) to defend the FIBA U18 title won last year - the nation's fourth in total.

The team, lead by coach Aleksandar Bucan, includes Pavle Kuzmanovic, Altin Islamovic, Luka Cerovina, Bogdan Nedeljkovic, Marko Pecarski, Bogdan Rutesic, Zoran Paunovic, Arijan Lakic, Toma Vasiljevic, Dalibor Ilic, Uros Trifunovic, and Filip Petrusev.