Basket League

Just three teams (Panathinaikos, Kolossos and Promitheas Patras) have made it two out of two in the Basket League this weekend, but the win of this round belongs to Aris that came from behind to beat AEK by two in Thessaloniki on Saturday.

Champion Panathinaikos is already looking good for finishing top of the table in the regular season of the Basket League, as on the championship's opener it defeated archrival Olympiakos by three (71-68) away from home on Sunday.

Thanasis Antetokounmpo returned to Greece after attending his father’s funeral in the US. The small forward will be present for the big match against the green’s arch-rivals Olympiakos at Piraeus on Sunday for the premiere of the Basket League, Greece’s top tier club basketball competition.

Panathinaikos wrested the Basket League title back from Olympiakos with an imposing display at the Peace and Friendship Stadium on Sunday that won it the best-of-five final series 3-2. Its deserved 66-51 victory in Piraeus completed the league-and-cup double for the team coached by Xavi Pascual.

Panathinaikos produced an emphatic performance on Thursday and made the most of Olympiakos's numerous turnovers to win Game 4 of the final series and force a fifth game on Sunday in Piraeus to determine the new champion of the Basket League.

Olympiakos shook off a 10-point deficit five minutes from the end to win Game 3 of the Basket League final series with Panathinaikos 64-62 on Sunday in Piraeus in what was the closest of the finals so far.

The Piraeus giant made the most of the nervous Panathinaikos attacks in the end to come from behind and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series.

Panathinaikos had Yiannis Bouroussis and Nikos Pappas on fire and beat Olympiakos 84-80 in Game 2 of the Basket League finals on Thursday to level the best-of-five series at 1-1.

Olympiakos shut Panathinaikos out in the last two minutes of Game 1 of the Basket League final series to come back from three points down and win by five (63-58) at the Peace and Friendship Stadium on Sunday.

TENNIS: Eighteen-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas has successfully negotiated three rounds of qualifying at the French Open and will be at the main draw of the tournament in Paris, for his first ever presence in a Grand Slam tournament. On Thursday the world's number 202 player defeated Germany's Oscar Otte 6-3, 6-2.

SOCCER: Iraklis had three points deducted off its tally for the 2016-17 season on Wednesday for the delayed payment of dues to a former player, and is getting relegated to the second division. Levadiakos is staying up instead.