Joao Sousa

Romania's men's tennis team defeated Portugal's team, 3-1, in the first round of the World Group I of the Davis Cup, after Marius Copil won, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, against Joao Sousa, at the Horia Demian Sports Hall in Cluj-Napoca, on Sunday.

Romanian-Dutch duo Horia Tecau/Jean-Julien Rojer advanced on Wednesday to the round of sixteen of the men's doubles event of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai, featuring total prizes of 7,473,620 US dollars, following their 7-5, 6-3 victory against the pair made up of Diego Schwartzman (Argentina)/Joao Sousa (Portugal).

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.

SOCCER: Panathinaikos is close to changing hands after the meeting that the representative of the Pan Asia Investments fund, Pairoj Piempongsant, had on Saturday with club owner Yiannis Alafouzos.

Bulgaria's top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov has defeated Cyprus' Marcos Baghdatis, reaching the 1/8-finals of Australian Open.

Dimitrov took 3 hours and 30 minutes to win a five-set match 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on day five of the Australian Open tournament.

10th seed Grigor Dimitrov will next plat Britain's Andy Murray or Portugal's Joao Sousa.

VALENCIA - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic reached the second round at the Valencia Open 500, after defeating Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-3, 7-6 (10-8) on Tuesday.

Lajovic, who is currently 67th in the ATP rankings, will play the winner of the match between Spain's Pablo Andujar and Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in his bid for the quarterfinals.

Romanian male tennis player Florin Mergea has advanced to the quarterfinals of the men's doubles event of the 598,260 US-dollar ATP Winston Salem Open tournament, in the US, teamed up with Portugal's Joao Sousa.

PARIS - Serbia's best tennis player Novak Djokovic eased into the second round at Roland Garros on Monday after a comfortable win over Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

Second seed Djokovic will next face local favorite Jeremy Chardy who defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain in straight sets 7-5, 6-2, 6-2.

BRUSSELS - John Clint Williamson,lead prosecutor for the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force investigating the allegations presented in the report by Dick Marty,returned from a two-day visit to Pristina on Tuesday, where he underlined the need for bringing the investigation into the human organ trafficking to a close without pre-judgment and speculation.