Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has qualified for the second round of the tennis tournament in Istanbul. The Bulgarian won 2:1 against qualifier Margarita Gasparyan from Russia. The match, which lasted 2 hours and 43 minutes, was the first between the two at the level of professional tennis. In order to secure a place in the quarterfinals Pironkova will have to play against Japan's Kurumi Nara. Meanwhile, Bulgaria’s Sesil Karatantcheva was eliminated from the tournament after a catastrophic 6:0, 6:1 loss against Italy's Francesca Schiavone.
Kiril Kirov entered the men's 10-meter pistol final at the World Shooting Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, BTA reported. The best Bulgarian shooter for last year gave the fifth result in the qualifications with 582 points, five less than the leader..
Bulgaria’s chess player Nadya Toncheva has qualified for the 2025 Chess World Cup. In 2023, she also participated in the single elimination Women’s Chess World Cup and lost in the first round to Grandmaster Deimante Cornette (Lithuania). In order..
In a symbolic handover at the closure of this year's European Rowing Championships in Szeged, Hungary, Plovdiv stepped into the spotlight as the next destination for Europe's premier rowing event in 2025. Annamarie Phelps, Chair of European Rowing,..
Yuliana Yaneva won the 4 th Olympic quota for Bulgarian wrestling and the second for women’s wrestling. At the tournament in Istanbul she won against..
An exhibition of 60 photos with the most memorable moments of Bulgarian and international sports from recent years will be arranged..
Bulgaria’s top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov started his participation in the ATP Masters 1000 tennis tournament in Rome with a victory versus Yoshihito..
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