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Bulgaria will play against Serbia on Saturday night in its third match of the 2014 Volleyball World League.

The 2 consecutive games against Serbia at Sofia's Arena Armeets could revive Bulgaria's hopes for passing the group stage, following two losses to the United States.

The Romanian pair made up of Ioana Ducu and Ioana Loredana Rosca on Saturday won the girls' doubles event of the Roland Garros tournament, after defeating the pair Catherine Cartan Bellis (US) /Marketa Vondrousova (the Czech Republic) 6-1, 5-7, 11-9 in the final.

Bulgaria's national football team coach Lyuboslav Penev will also lead top league club Botev Plovdiv from next season.

On Friday, the Bulgarian Football Union announced that it will allow Penev to combine the two jobs. The BFU President Borislav Mihaylov discussed the matter with the Executive Committee of the union and they agreed to give Penev the green light.

 Two headers gave Greece its only victory in four friendlies in 2014

Panayiotis Kone ended Greece's nearly four-game goalless streak in the first half and the Europeans beat Bolivia 2-1 on Friday night at New Jersey, in its last friendly before heading to Brazil for the World Cup.

By Ioanna Fotiadi

“The longest soccer game in the world” is how one foreign website described the rematch, 84 years in the offing, between Lailapas, a team based on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, and Turkey’s Karsiyaka.

PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic is through to the Roland Garros final, after defeating Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Friday.

The world number two is now only a step away from the only Grand Slam title he lacks, and will face either Britain's Andy Murray or Spain's Rafael Nadal for the title.

BELGRADE - Youth Sport Games, which bring together pupils and high-school students, will be held in Serbia from July 13 to 27 for the first time, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said on Friday.

At the promotion of the project, Vucic added that the initiative for their holding had been launched by Miodrag Rakic, the late chief of staff of the former Serbian president Boris Tadic.

PARIS - Serbian tennis player Ivana Jorovic managed to get into the final at the Junior French Open, after defeating Francoise Abanda of Canada 6-4, 6-0 in the semi-final on Friday.

In order to claim the title, Jorovic will have to beat the winner of the other semi-final match between Russia's Darya Kasatkina and Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic.

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Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo is banking on Brazilian support for his country at the World Cup, where he says they are in the toughest of the eight groups.
   

The French Open final on Saturday between Russian superstar Maria Sharapova and Romanian upstart Simona Halep sees a stark contrast in styles and status.