In the quarterfinals, the San Juan basketball players, who played the Latvian 3 × 3 Olympic champions, beat the Serbian Ub in the final with 21:13 and won the Lausanne Masters tournament.
Against the Latvian “Riga” team, the victory of “San Juan” was taken 19 seconds before the end of the match, when after a successfully created cover with a very difficult long shot 21:20 Einžels Matias reached.
“San Juan” defeated the world’s leading team “Liman” from Serbia in the semi-finals with 20:18, but in the finals with 21:13 won another Serbian unit “Ub” (4th). In San Juan, this was the first big title since winning the 2012 World Tour final, this time playing in a different line-up.
Matthias won three of the five games and was named the most valuable player in the tournament.
At the end of the competition, the Latvian quartet was ranked fifth.
On Friday, in the subgroup, Latvians won the Austrian team “Graz” (10th) and the hostess “Lausanne” with 21:16.
In the first “Masters” tournament of the season in March, “Riga” took the fourth place after “Amsterdam”, “Novi Sad” and “Liman”.
On August 24 and 25, “Riga” will start in the “Challenger” series tournament in Riga, but then three “Masters” tournaments are planned – on August 28 and 29 in Debrecen, on September 4 and 5 in Montreal and on September 18 and 19 in Prague. .
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