In the first tournament together, a 4-star stage of the World Tour, the new couple play for third place after the knockout in the semifinals
It is the last 4-star tournament in the history of beach volleyball, it is the first tournament together of Daniele Lupo and Alex Ranghieri. It is almost strange, after 11 years and over a hundred tournaments with Paolo Nicolai, to write the name of this new couple. The result, however, does not change. Lupo-Ranghieri will play for the podium in the first tournament together, on Itapema beach, on the southern coast of Brazil. After the 2-0 victory in the quarterfinals against home idol Alison “Mammuth” Cerutti, also with a new teammate, Guto, an acrobatic defender born in 1993, who with Alison had played in his debut internationally, the pair of airmen of the Air Force lost 2-0 in the semifinals against the other Brazilians Renato-Vitor Felipe. For Daniele and Alex it is the beginning of a journey that began at the end of October with the first training sessions in Rome with Dionisio Lequaglie and Fosco Cicola, technicians of the beach volleyball school in Lupo. “When I realized that with Paolo there would be no room to continue, I called Alex because I still want to play at a high level and win” had told Lupo in the first interview after the announcement of the separation, granted to the Gazzetta dello Sport.
New route
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In order to set out on this road, which in any case, regardless of the result of this tournament, will be full of curves, Lupo has agreed to leave the federal project and now receives only a contribution like Carambula and Rossi, which represents only a part of the budget with which pay technicians and travel. From next year, in fact, with the new formula of the World Tour which includes Elite tournaments to which the best 16 couples of the ranking are admitted (and Ranghieri will start with the points won in this Brazilian tournament and a little something inherited from the last appearances), the couple of Air Force airmen will have to do some results in the Challenges to climb the rankings and return to the international Olympus of beach volleyball. The bases, however, seem to be there, at least as far as we have seen in Brazil so far. Until the defeat in the semifinals, Daniele and Alex had won all four games played, without even a set left on the street and prestigious scalps like those of the hosts Saymon-Oscar and Alison-Guto despite all the audience of the Itapema plant against.
November 13 – 11.10pm
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