Today the preliminary qualifying rounds of Future Madrid, of the Beach Volleyball World Circuit, were playedwith the final draw from Friday to Sunday at the Puerta de Hierro sports facilities, cWith the important crashes on the Elsa Baquerizo track, the best player from Madrid in history, retired after the Tokyo Olympics.
Well, none of the Madrid women called to succeed Elsa now are in the competition: Tanya Moreno, because he is finishing college in Texas; Y Bethlehem Carro, because he plays in Turkey with Ángela Lobato, in another demonstration of the deficient sports planning of the International Federation, that the competition is held with the same dates, so that tournaments with a lower level of prizes (points and money) lose their attractiveness for athletes.
Belén Carro (1.91 meters) and Ángela Lobato (1.76) have just won the Copa de la Reina in Manacor, and they happen to be the best couple of the moment, with the permission of the one that is played in the NCAA (Tania Mioreno and Daniela Alvarez). The Spanish Federation has preferred that they travel to Turkey, with which Madrid is left a bit lame, although the couple Paula Soria (she has formed a couple at some point with all the outstanding Spanish women) and Sofía González (under-21 world runner-up), who were not in the Queen’s Cup due to illness, are the ones indicated to respond to the Italians Marta Menegatti and Valentina Gottardi, the first heads of series.
Today Claudia Santisberan and Sara Segarra have lost in the previous one, so in the main draw from nine in the morning four couples compete. In addition to Paula Soria and Sofía González, they are Natalia Binimelis and Carolina Fernandez (semi-finalists in the Copa de la Reina); Nazareth Florian and Nuria Bouza, two veterans with a long career in the arena, and Adriana Serrano with Maria Ozaeta, of the Majadonda club, still in youthful age, forming the Spanish group.
