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World rankings leader Iga wiątek won with Bianca Andreescu of Canada 7:6 (7-2), 6:0 in the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament on clay in Rome ($2.53 million pool). In the semifinals, the opponent of the Polish tennis player is Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.

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Very strong winds made it difficult to compete in the inaugural Diamond League meeting in Doha. The pole vault competition with Piotr Lisek on the initial roster was moved to Saturday. Natalia Kaczmarek took sixth place in the 400 m race.

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Wrocław’s ląsk basketball players advance to the final of the Ekstralasa play-offs. In their fifth decisive semifinal match, they beat Grupa Sierleccy Czarni 81:71 in Słupsk. Their rival for the gold medal was Legia Warszawa, who knocked out Anwil Włocławek.

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The elite world ice hockey championship kicks off on Friday in Finland. The home team easily beat Norway 5: 0, while title-retaining Canada won 5:3 against Germany.

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Daria Parada beat Erdenetuya Enkhbaatar of Mongolia 3-2 and advanced to the quarter-finals of the 70 kg boxing world championship, which was held in Istanbul. Polish women have won all the duels in this event so far.

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Dutchman Koen Bouwman of the Jumbo-Visma team won the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia cycling race in Potenza. Spaniard Juan Pedro Lopez (Trek-Segafredo) remains the leader.

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In the match that opened the 33rd round of the football league, Cracovia beat Wisła Płock 3-0 at home.

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One of the leading players of the Dutch national team, Georginio Wijnaldum, was not called up to the Nations League meeting in June, incl. from Poland. The reason, according to coach Louis van Gaal, playing too few minutes for Paris Saint-Germain.

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Robert Lewandowski will play in Bayern’s team in last season’s Bundesliga football match Saturday against VfL Wolfsburg – Julian Nagelsmann, coach of the Munich title that is sure, assured. He did not want to comment on reports of the Pole’s possible departure.

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KU AZS UE Wrocław became the champion of the Polish team in women’s table tennis. In the final second leg match, the players from Wrocław defeated 30-time national champion KTS Enea Siarkopol 3:1 in Tarnobrzeg. In the first match of the final in Wrocław, KU AZS UE beat the team from Tarnobrzeg 3-0.

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