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Tennis: Guillermo Garcia-Lopez wins BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy
The Spanish tennis player Guillermo Garcia-Lopez has won this year's edition of the 439,405 euro-worth BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy tournament to the Cezch Jiri Vesely 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (13/11) in the singles final on Sunday at the Bucharest Arenele BNR.
Photo: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES Photo
Tennis: BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy results; young Bogdan Apostol qualifies to second round
Romanian Bogdan Ionut Apostol (19 years old) defeated Bosnian Aldin Setkic, cu 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday at the BNR Arenas of Bucharest, in the first round of the BRD Nastase ?iriac Trophy ATP tournament, a tennis competition with prizes amounting to 439,405 euro.
Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE
Ponta: Bucharest hosting WTA tournament, a major achievement for Romania
Premier Victor Ponta welcomed on Monday the organization of a WTA tournament in Bucharest and wished good luck to the competitors and especially the Romanian players.
Romania's Simona Halep wants to become women's tennis world No. 1
Romanian tennis player Simona Halep said she wants to become world No. 1.
On arriving to Romania to take part in the BRD Bucharest Open tournament, Halep declared: "I want to become world number one. I don't know if it's possible, but I want to rise to number one."