Cav's Place

Romania had three teams in this season’s EHF Women’s Champions’ League but, seeing as this is not a matter of coefficients or even qualifying rounds, at the moment it’s still pretty much anyone’s guess whether this will continue to be the case next season. If CSM Bucharest, who had nothing to play for anymore, remaining […]

Even if I was glad to have apparently been proven wrong when she was allowed to compete again, I guess I can say that my initial assessment that Halep’s ban will mark the end of the career was, in the end, correct, just that it took her 11 months of struggle, plagued by injuries that […]

If I was glad to have been proven wrong about the outcome of Simona Halep’s appeal, the hard-fought defeat in the first match after her return revealed a level of fitness that was, unsurprisingly, not where it used to be, and the injury that forced her to retire from the next match proved that she […]

Some might have expected things to be different today, when Cristina Neagu played the first match after announcing her retirement at the end of the season, especially since she’s still chasing Jovanka Radicevic, who also announced her retirement at the end of the season, when it comes to the most goals scored in the Champions’ […]

Since we’re approaching the end of the US Open, which is the tournament that kept hammering nails into the coffin of Grand Slam tournaments, and of tennis as a whole, as an endurance sport for half a century before the policy was fully enforced at the highest level, and my interest in tennis is still […]