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For women, the top favorite of the Ukrainian team beat Latvia by 2-0. Anhelina Hmilla and Valentina Davidova defeated Liv Eber with Paul Rusuna with 2-0 (21:17, 21:16), while Marina Hladun and Tetian Lazarenko with 2-1 (21:18, 17:21, 15:11)-Anija and Marta Ozolina.
“We came here with the idea of winning, and I think it helped our team at the end, even though our teammates played three sets. When I was watching the game, I was convinced that they would win and I was happy to succeed,” said Anhelina Hmilla after winning the qualifying tournament.
“Yesterday the weather was just crazy. I hadn’t been waiting for such a absolutely beach volleyball to adapt to any weather. All athletes play in the same weather in the same tournament, everyone is trying to adapt as much as possible and trying to show their best game ready for the weather.” Ukrainian player.
The tournament in Riga was the penultimate selection tournament. In the previous five pre -race tournaments, the Road Signs were won by the Spanish, Netherlands, Norwegian, France and Denmark men and Spain, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands and the French women’s teams. Another tournament from June 21 to 22 takes place in Vilnius.
The final tournament from 17 to 20 July will take place in the Portuguese city of Ashpinju. The winners of the finals will win the road sign to the World Beach Volleyball Championship, which will take place in Australia from 14 to 23 November.
In Latvia, high -ranking international competitions took place for the second week in a row, last week athletes at Majori Beach Volleyball Stadium in Jurmala fighting in the beach volleyball professional tour (BPT) Futures competition.
