This weekend, the last official FIVB Tournament, exclusively for women-teams, will end the 2011 Swatch World Tour in Phuket. The semi-finals having already been plaid, the last two games of the season will oppose Bawden-Palmer (AUS) and Cicolari-Menegatti (ITA)in the 3rd-place-game and the chinese team Xue-Zhang Xi will compete against the US-team Kessy-Ross, the 2009 world-champion, in the final.
The young italian team made an impressive 2011 season and we wish them good luck for this last season-game. In Phuket, they missed the final only by loosing 21-18 and 21-19 against Kessy-Ross in the semi-final !! Really promising.
Unfortunately, my favourite brazilian team, the Salgado-Sisters finished at the quite disappointing 13th place, loosing against Fendrick-Hanson from the USA. What proves again that it's easier to get to the top (5th place in the 2007 World-Championship in Gstad) than to confirm such great performances.
In Luxembourg, the beachvolleyball-season has already finished 2 months ago and it's time to begin thinking about the preparation of the 2012 season with some training-camps in spring.
But first a very last 2011 training-camp will be held in December in La Santa on Lanzarote. As for the last years, my friend Andreas Haak is organizing this event. There are still some places left, so call or write him to participate (T: 0049 / 157 780 717 62; mail@beach-camp.es; more infos on www.beach-camp.es).
It's always big fun and there will be 8-9 training units in 7 days on 2 courts. Size of the group will not exceed 8-12 participants, in order to maintain a good training quality and group-spirit.
Yesterday evening, the first cranes finally left our region for the warmer south and so I wish you all a very short winter and already a good preparation for the next beachvolleyball-season.
See you soon
La lucertola
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