Beach Volley / Press Release n.36 20 May 2005

XX Edition World Festival On The Beach
Palermo Mondello 11-22 May 2005

SECOND DAY OF THE PROSERIES BEACH VOLLEY INTERNATIONAL TOUR
The Brazilians win with no problems against Italy/Australia. Womens match begins

As was thought the favourites from Brazil Paulao, ex world champion, and Lissandro Carvalho beat the Italian-Australian team Buragina and Hinchley 2 sets to 0, after a great start from the Brazilians, the Italian-Australian team tried to fight back but were beaten at the second set point to 21-18. In the second set Paulao and Lissandro won 21-15 in their first game in Mondello.
The Queen of the Beaches athletes played at long last today at 4.30pm: Maarja Natus and Katri Vaiknemets from Estonia were against Denise Koelliker from Switzerland and Luna Pietrucci from Italy. The first set finished with a gap of 21-6 and 21-19 on the second, the match went to the Pietrucci/Koelliker team.
Players Ranking:
Pietrucci/Koelliker 42 points, Natus/Vaiknemets 25 points.

This evening at 10.00pm the first evening match will be held with the French Team Greg Znatchkovsky and Laurent Krafft against Emanuele Monduzzi from SanMarino and Gregor Lah, Slovenian.
Tomorrow 5 matches will take place. At 10.30 the womans category will play for the Queen of the Beach title and at 10.00pm the mens Proseries international Tour semi-finals will begin.

Program of matches for the 21st of May:

10.30: Koelliker/Vaiknemets - Pietrucci/Natus
11.30: Monduzzi/Lah - Barbierik/Petrucha
15.00: Paulao/Carvalho - Grilc/Pivk
16.30: Barbierik/Petrucha - Znatchkovsky/Krafft
22.00: First semi-final 1a A - 2a B