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Alessia Orro sets her next goal
Alessia Orro bets big on Italy Cup goal
An intense weekend is about to begin for Italian women’s volleyball: in fact, at the Unipol Arena in Casalecchio di Reno, the Final Four of the Italian Series A1 Cup will be held between Saturday and Sunday, with four teams in contention. In the first semifinal will face Conegliano and Novara, in the second Scandicci will tryà to topple Vero Volley Milano.
The girls led by coach Stefano Lavarini believe in it, starting with captain Alessia Orro: “We are definitely in a positive moment compared to the beginning of the season,” said the Olympic champion. “We come to this Italian Cup with important victories in the Champions League and in the championship, which give us further confidence. We know that against Scandicci it will be an intense battle, also because we know each other very well by now”.
Orro è one of the fourteen players at coach Lavarini’s disposal: in addition to her, on the Numia Vero Volley Milano roster there are the other setter Kostantinidou, the middle hitters Danesi, Guidi, Heyrman and Kurtagic, the setters Sylla, Cazaute, Egonu, Daalderop, Pietrini and Smrek, and the frees Gelin and Fukudome.
Coaching Savino Del Bene Scandicci è however, a former player in this challenge, coach Marco Gaspari. The roster at his disposal è consists of the setters Ognjenovic and Gennari, the middlewomen Graziani, Nwakalor, Carol and Mancini, the setters Herbots, Ruddins, Kotikova, Bajema, Antropova and Mingardi, and finally the frees Castillo, Parrocchiale and Ribechi.
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Nothing done between Sampdoria and Sassuolo
È ended 0-0 the advance of the twenty-seventh day of Serie B at the Stadio Ferraris in Genoa between Sampdoria and Sassuolo.
Few emotions between the blucerchiati and neroverdi, the latter are at +8 at the top of the standings pending the commitments of the others, especially Pisa second, but slow down after three consecutive victories.
Samp, on the other hand, is restarting, albeit slowly, after the defeat against Südtirol.
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ATP 500 Doha, final between Andrey Rublev and Jack Draper
Andrey Rublev and Jack Draper are the finalists in the ATP 500 tournament in Doha.
The Russian, the No. 5 seed, beat Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets with a score of 7-5 3-6 7-6 to win his third final at the Qatar Open. Having lost the first one in 2018, he will conquer the victory in 2020.
Later, the Briton who had eliminated Matteo Berrettini also needed three games to reach the final. Draper è won in a comeback 3-6 7-6 6-3 over Czech Jiri Lehecka, fresh off a brilliant victory over Carlos Alcaraz.
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Women's Nations League, Italy beats Wales
Italy began its journey in Group A4 of the Women’s Nations League with a victory, beating Wales 1-0 in Monza. “It will be a complicated match” had said on the eve of the match the coach of the Azzurri, Andrea Soncin, and in fact, after finding the lead in the opening with Bonansea at 5′ of the game, Italy then sinned a bit in precision to secure the result, despite the many conclusions tried until the last minutes of the match.
The next match è scheduled for next Tuesday in La Spezia, against Denmark. At halftime, the ‘Brianteo’ stadium dedicated a round of applause to Natalina Ceraso Levati, 81 years old, 50 of which were dedicated to soccer, an executive of Fiammamonza and the Women’s Soccer Division, which she led from 1997 to 2009. She received a bouquet of flowers from the chairwomen of the Serie A Division and Serie B Division, Federica Cappelletti and Laura Tinari.
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