Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo have an excellent performance. Photo: FIVB.
The Cuban couple of Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo took advantage of their silver medal in the recent Beach Pro Tour, organized in the Brazilian city of Recife, and They rose five places in the Beach Volleyball world ranking. This medal not only represents their first in the tournaments on this circuit, but also confirms them with serious aspirations of achieving Olympic qualification.
After this event, with the category of Challenge and only inferior in quality to the Elite 16 among those organized as part of this circuit, Creoles appear in 26th place in the world ranking. Now their accumulated score is 4,496 points and they appear as the fifth best in NORCECA, only behind four American pairs.
In addition to the meritorious promotion, eThis result allows them to maintain their place in the main draw of the next tournaments with a high level. Challengethus avoiding the dangerous qualifying rounds.
Now ours They must compete starting March 28 in the Beach Pro Tour of Saquarema, also organized by the South American giant. Then they are scheduled to attend the Challenge in Guadalajara on April 11 and a week later at the Elite 16 in Tepic, a much higher level test due to the presence of several of the main couples in the world.
Nevertheless, Participation in all these competitions would still not be enough for the Antilleans to ensure the dispute for the Olympic ticket through ranking., since one of the conditions is to attend twelve classification tournaments between January 2023 and the end of the period. So far Díaz and Alayo only have seven participations, and they would only reach ten if they add those contests.
The Cubans achieved their first podium at this level. Photo: NORCECA.
The Elite 16 events in Brasilia and Espinho would be the closest geographically to ours, but So far there is no confirmation of their presence in them.
The Olympic Qualification Ranking It ends on June 9 and will give 17 places to the best-placed couples, discounting the world champions, a French pair and those pairs from nations that already have two others better placed in the rankings. In that list Cubans appear in the 25th place.
However, ours They do have serious options to get the summer ticket in the NORCECA pre-Olympic tournamentan event that will be organized by the Mexican city of Tlaxcala between June 19 and 24 and that will favor the champions in each sex with their presence in Paris.
There Díaz and Alayo They will have as great rivals the Canadians Schachter and Dearing and the locals Sarabia and Virgentaking into account that the United States must obtain its places through the ranking and the Canadians themselves, although they are close to achieving it that way, might not do so and would look for the ticket in NORCECA.
In any case, the Cuban duo demonstrated with their silver in Recife How much progress have you made in the last few months?. Try to access the main draws of the upcoming tournaments, train at the highest level and prepare your weapons for the decisive pre-Olympic tournament.
In video, summary of the title match in Recife:
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