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Judo, Doha Masters: the draws and the opponents of the 10 Italians

“Here are the best in the world and we are among them” said the blue coach Francesco Bruyere

In a tournament like the Masters, which only the top 36 of the world rankings can access in each category, the element of luck is obviously excluded from the games, just as the public that causes Covid is forced to give up their seats in the stands and the tournament if he has to follow him through a screen. The luck, in this case, is to be good, strong and capable, to the point of deserving an invitation to the Masters in Doha which is ready to go: tomorrow, at 10 local time, we will start fighting on the three tatamis in the Multipurpose Hall of Lusail. “You can’t think of coming to the Masters and being in a good draw or a bad draw. – underlined coach Francesco Bruyere at the end of the ‘draw’ – Here are the best in the world and we are among them. We worked hard and we can expect anything from our guys, but luck doesn’t exist here, to get to the bottom you have to beat all the strongest players ”. All that remains is to wait and imagine what the result will be for our ten champions or, to venture what could be the winners in the fourteen weight categories, if you allow yourself to be drawn into the vortex of Fantasy Judo, a curious and engaging game promoted by the IJF.

draws for men

But let’s see how the ten Azzurri in the race were arranged in their respective scoreboards, starting with Manuel Lombardo who, as seeded number 1 in the 66 kg, goes straight to the second round where the winner awaits between Denis Vieru (Mda) and Nijat Shikhalizada ( Aze). In 73 kg we have Fabio Basile, called to face Cuban Magdiel Estrada, thirty-second in the ranking, and Giovanni Esposito, who has to deal with the Turkish Bilal Ciloglu, in fifth place in the world rankings. Two Azzurri also competing in the 81 kg: in the round of 32 Antonio Esposito was drawn with the Brazilian Eduardo Santos, eighteenth in the standings, while Christian Parlati will face the Belgian Sami Chouchi, fifth in the 2020 European Championships in Prague and twenty-fourth in the ranking. For Nicholas Mungai, on the other hand, a top ten opponent (9th place) in the 90 kg category was drawn, South Korean Donghan Gwak, winner of the Grand Prix in Tel Aviv 2020.

women’s draws

As for the women’s categories, Odette Giuffrida’s 52 kg draw reserved a sixteenth of the final with the Spanish Estrella Lopez Sheriff, bronze at the European Championships in Prague after losing the semifinal with the blue: “We prepare every match in a appropriate and even if already met other times – Bruyere pointed out – it is always a new story, every encounter is complicated ”. In the 63 kg, Edwige Gwend’s sixteenth of the final is with the South Korean Han Hee Ju, number 36 of the WRL, while Maria Centracchio will face Prisca Awiti Alcaraz, Mexican number 31. To conclude the list of blue draws there is is Alice Bellandi who, in the 70 kg, will face the Croatian Barbara Matic, gold in the Grand Slam in Budapest last October and twenty-third in the standings.

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