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The Romanian athletes have scored several victories on Sunday in the first day of the 2019 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest.
Sipos scored two victories at women's single, and the pair of Samara/Pletea made it at double mixed, according to the Romanian Table Tennis Federation (FRTT) website.
Results:
women's single:
Group 12
Daniela Dodean Monteiro - Mariam Imanova (Azerbaijan) 4-0 (11-2, 11-5, 11-6, 11-3)
Group 19
Irina Ciobanu - Chiara Morri (San Marino) 4-0 (11-2, 11-1, 11-1, 11-4)
Group 41
Adina Diaconu - Iva Dimitrievska (North Macedonia) 4-0 (11-2, 11-1, 11-4, 11-2)
men's single:
Group 3
Hunor Szocs - Owen Cathcart (Ireland) 4-0 (12-10, 11-5, 12-10, 7-6, 11-7)
Group 39
Cristian Pletea - Ibrahim Mohammad Ansari (Azerbaijan) 4-0 (11-4, 11-4, 11-3, 11-2)
Group 77
Rares Sipos - Ibrahima Diaw (Senegal) 4-3 (11-1, 11-7, 11-13, 7-11, 11-7, 7-11, 15-13)
Rares Sipos - Ingi Darvis Rodriguez (Island) 4-0 (11-2, 11-1, 11-1, 11-4)
double mixed:
preliminary round 1
Eliza Samara/Cristian Pletea - Aleksandr Smirnov/Reelica Hanson (Estonia) 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 11-6)
preliminary round 2
Eliza Samara/Cristian Pletea - Rajko Gomers/Kim Vermaas (The Netherlands) 3-1 (11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 11-4)
