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The stage of the Grand SLAM series "World Tour" for the Beach Voleya began in Moscow
On sand courts built in the recreation area on Poklonnaya Hill in the Russian capital, the Grand Slam series with a common prize pool of 600 thousand dollars began. Almost all the strongest masters of beach volleyball in the world arrived in our country. The owners have a difficult task indicated by the President of the All -Russian Volleyball Federation Stanislav Shevchenko - at least one couple should get to the semifinals.For the first time, the elite of the beach volleyball gathered in the capital a dozen years ago, and then the competition was held in the floodplain of Moscow River at the Stroginsky bridge. The next season, the tournament was organized in Troparevo, and then there was a long break to the 2005 European Championship, which took place in Luzhniki next to the universal gym of Druzhba. Since 2008, Russia has received the right to hold the Grand Slam competitions - this is a limited series of tournaments (from four to six per year), where increased prize and rating glasses are played. The best pairs of the planets pass Grand Slam only in exceptional, force-organ cases-due to injuries, diseases, etc.
Here are just the most famous teams participating in the Moscow stage. In women, these are multiple winners of the general offset of the “world round” Larissa-Zhuliana (Brazil), the current world champion Jennifer Kessi-April Ross (USA), the two-time winner of the Olympic “gold” American Misty Mai May, who is now in Tandem Nicole Branag, while her former Kerry Walsh partner is in maternity vacation. We add to this list the three strongest teams of the final classification of Eurotour-2009: Sarah Goller-Laura Ludwig, Katrin Holtwick-Ilka Semmler (all-Germany), Lisbeth Van Bredam-Lisbet Mua (Belgium). Plus bronze medalists of the summer games 2008 Chinese Sue Chen-Zhang Si. The composition of the participants is so powerful that the European champions 2009 Latvian girls Ingun Minus and Ines Jurson had to start competitions with the qualification round.
In the men's tournament, the main attention of the audience will be focused on the performance of the Vice-Champions of the World-2007 Igor "Bazuki" Kolodinsky and Dmitry Barsuka. It is possible that Kolodinsky will whimper to beat his own world record for the speed of the ball at the feed. Now it is 114 km/h. The competition remains the sharpest, because in the main grid the Olympic champions Todd Rogers - Phil Dalhausser (USA), the world champions Julius Brink - Jonas Rekermann (Germany), twice in a row, the owners of European "gold" Richard Skhail - Reynder Nummerdor (Holland), four Brazilian couples, each of which is able to go up to the highest stage. The podium of honor.
And here in qualifications there will be something to see: today the selection process in the main grid will begin such beach “heavyweights” as the legendary Brazilians Ricardo (Olympic champion of Athens-2004, the holder of 50 titles of the winner of the FIVB tournaments) and Martian Araujo (world champion 2005), semi-finalists of Beijing and Guy (these are combat pseudonyms) Under the flag of Georgia, but actually Renato Gometes and Georges Troshiro. They are naturalized Brazilians.
The tournament began on Monday matches of the women's “Country-Quota” for the right to play in ordinary qualifications. In the International Volleyball Federation, there is a limit on the representative office of pairs of one state in the qualifying and main grid, so individual teams have to make long travels only in order to play at the internal level.
In Moscow, even such a seemingly routine event was taught an intrigue and some interest. Indeed, not anyone played in the Country Swit, but the best player of Germany in classic volleyball for nine seasons in a row (2000---2008), a two-time winner of the Club League League in the Italian Foppaedretti (Bergamo) Angelina Grun. By the way, she speaks perfectly in Russian, since she was born in the territory of the former Soviet Union-in Dushanbe. The sensational transition of Grun from classic volleyball to the beach did not bring any fruit for a long time. At the three previous stages of the World Tour, Angelina, together with his partner Rike Brink Abelier, could not go further than the “country-boots”. And in Moscow, they finally overcame this barrier.
Women today begin the main tournament-here at the group stage 32 pairs are divided into eight quartets, then playoffs will be played. Russia is represented by Maria Bratkova - Evgenia Ukolova. Anastasia Vasina-Ekaterina Khomyakova and buzzing-Flores Yalovaya-Alexander Moiseeva (Shiryaeva). The last of the mentioned athletes is the 2006 European champion (paired with Natalia Urovaya), a participant in the Beijing Olympiad. After the summer games, that is, since August of the year before last, Alexander did not perform at the FIVB tournaments, as she went on maternity leave and became a mother safely. Her return to the Russian championship has already taken place in May, but went completely unnoticed.
In the “Smolensk Spring”, which is part of the regional series of national championship, Shiryaeva, along with Ekaterina Syrtseva from the VK “Twisted Ball” (Sosnovy Bor), was stuck in qualifications. It would be time for a directorate for holding the championship of the country to think that honored people should receive Wild Card in such cases (Urehorova was also littered in the selection in the beginning of last season), and the rule of the “frozen” rating should apply to the decree. After all, this is done in a large tennis, from which beach volleyball copies the format of a number of tournaments. It turned out that in the championship of Russia, who returned from the decree of Shiryaeva, despite the mass of previous merits, had to start from absolute zero. This is completely wrong.
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