The Italy Olympic champion in the final of Bangkok, in front of 5800 spectators, beats Turkey in a compelling challenge closed at the tie-break, won for 15 to 8. Absolute protagonists Paola Egonu and Miriam Sylla.
From the first bars, the tension is high, but the blue start on the right foot, also strong in the favorable precedents (with the last four clashes with Turkey won by Italy). Paola Egonu and Melissa Vargas drag, as in the forecasts, the respective teams in a first set however played point to point. Italy manages to have the best only in the last part, ensuring it with the result of 25 to 23.
Those who think it is the prologue of an Italian monologue will be disappointed. In fact, the tricolor national team goes out at the beginning of the second fraction and immediately goes below 10 to 3. An inexplicable blackout. Julio Velasco is forced to use his time outs to try to shake the team that loses lucidity and finds himself below 15 to 6. And then 18 to 7, despite the entry of Ekaterina Anthropova in the role of opposite, called to replace Egonu in difficulty. An abyss. In fact, a peremptory 25 to 13 arrives in favor of Türkiye.
Fortunately, the third set begins with a new reversal in front. The Italian national team resumes courage thanks to an ace of Sylla who together with Paola Egonu drags the blue on 6-2. It is played on the ball change, point to point, with a wall of Egonu that fixes the score on 15-11. Turkey approaches 15 to 13 forcing Velasco to a time out dedicated to the actress Alessia Orro, before the final Rush, when a domineering turn to the service of Vargas brings Turkey forward. The last points are all a show of the two stars of the game: Vargas with an ace and a winning joke reports Turkey on 24 even. But Egonu is not there: first he crushes in the Turkish field on 25 to 24 and then on the service place an incredible ace that gives Italy on 2 to 1.
In the fourth set Italy tries to keep the rhythm of Türkiye but the Turkish plants systematically have the best on the blue ones. In a few minutes Italy finds himself chasing on 13 to 8. Egonu and Sylla are unable to reverse the negative trend of a partial in which the blue seem to dissolve as in the second set, exposing themselves to the frustrated of the usual Vargas and the Fast of the Erdem plant, totem of Fenerbace. It ends 25 of 19 for Turkey and goes to the tie-break.
