The winner of 23 Grand Slam titles Serena Williams has pulled out of Roland Garros tennis tournament with an injury. At a press conference she pointed out that her decision was due to an Achilles tendon injury. The US tennis player was supposed to face Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova later on Wednesday in the second round of the tournament.
Thus, Pironkova has qualified directly to the third round of Roland Garros where she is to face Barbora Strýcová (Czechia) or Barbora Krejcikova (Czechia), BTA informs.
Bulgarian tennis player Viktoriya Tomova achieved a decisive victory at the start of the WTA 125 tournament on clay with a prize fund of 100,000 euros in the Italian city of Bari. Tomova won 6:0, 6:2 against Guiomar..
Rositsa Dencheva got off to a flying start at the French open tennis tournament Roland-Garros. In the girls’ singles she won versus against No. 2 seed Kristina Penickova, USA, by 6-4, 6-1. One more Bulgarian player qualified for the..
Valentina Georgieva defended her second place in the vault final of the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in the German city of Leipzig . The Bulgarian gymnast, who also placed second last year in Rimini, performed a great first vault, which..
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