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The world championships are already in a history…
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 19:21

The world championships are already in a history…

So The ITF Beach Tennis World Championships in Cervia, which brought  incredible emotions, exciting matches and the atmosphere of a great party to players and all beach tennis lovers, are finally closed!

 The semifinal and final matches became a real sensation this year. The first semifinal in women's doubles brought the victory to the German Maraike Biglmaier and a Venezuelan Patricia Diaz. Girls beat the well experienced Italians Eva D’Elia and Veronica Visani. In the second semifinal Giulia Gasparri and Flaminia Daina beat No. 1 players and last year's Champions Federica Bacchetta and Sofia Cimatti. So for the first time in the history of the world beach tennis championships we saw non-Italian players. The final was amazing, where Gasparri and Daina made Italian fans very happy by winning 6-4 6-1.

DainainginocchieGasparri

The men's doubles had a similar situation… The first semifinals were played by Brazilians Marcus Ferreira and Thales Santos and Italians Luca Cramarossa and Marco Antonelli, where Italians took over in two sets. In the second semifinal in an incredible struggle Matteo Marighella and Michele Cappelletti beat last year's Champions and the No 1 players Alessandro Calbucci and Marco Garavini 6-7(2) 7-6(1) 6-4. And In a purely Italian final Michele and Matteo took their champions title with 7-6(3) 6-0.

The most successful occupation of Italian beach tennis kingdom belongs to mixed doubles players Vinicius Font and Joana Cortez. Thanks to a brilliant game Brazilians won on Sofia Cimatti and Marco Faccini 6-2 6-4.

Font-Cort

The men's doubles finalist Luca Camarossa and the women's doubles champion Giulia Gasparri shared their emotions with us.

 


GasparryGiulia Gasparri

Every match at the World Championships was so hard. In my opinion, the most difficult match there was the semifinal against Bacchetta and Cimatti, because Chicca e Sofia won this tournament last year and they are one of the strongest team in beach tennis. The final match against Maraike and Patty was hard as well because WOW! It was the FINAL...so congrats to all the players, who participated this championships. After this triumph I want to take a little holiday and then I would restart to train for the next ITF tournaments and for the next goals.

 


KramarossoLuca Cramarossa

First of all our game against Burmakin and Kuptsov was very exciting. We canceled three match points against in the second set, and after this we managed to win the third. The public has contributed a lot to this win. It was all very exciting, Sergey have proven to be a great player, beating Garavini and Calbucci in Russia two weeks ago. I think we all four played a really nice beach tennis.

It was great to play for the second year in the final, we started very well, but unfortunately we could not win the tie-break. The second set we start not well and Marighella and Сappelletti have gained confidence and dominated the match. Anyway I'm very pleased to be a part of this world championships.

 

TimofeevaRussian athlete Natalia Timofeeva commented one the most dramatic days for the Russian team:

Quarterfinal match at the men’s doubles was very dramatic for us. Our boys Kuptsov and Burmakin played against Cramarossa and Antonelli, and it was incredibly heavy and nervous but very beautiful match. Italian fans were so loud, they supported their team by screaming and singing. The first set we won 7/6, took the lead in the second 5/2, and it seemed that the victory is already in our hands. But unfortunately, we had three matchballs and finally lost the second set 7/6. In the third set the pressure was crazy, and it seemed like it was really hard to play for our guys, and finally they lost 6-4. Other matches on that day were not so hard. And after such a hard fight for Russians it was really nice to see how our other players Ivan Syrov and Nikolay Guryev reached the of consolation, and won it in the end

 

 

Reporter btrussia.com Ekaterina Bobkova

Photo by Maximillan Hamm, Lilyana Vinogradova

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