A1, Apuania Carrara overwhelms Naples »La Gazzetta di Massa and Carrara
Sport: table tennis
Sunday, October 10 2021, 11:24 pm
On the first day of the men’s A1 series, Apuania Carrara, led by Claudio Volpi, won 4-0 away against Napoli, driven by a brace from Lubomir Pistej, on their debut in the league, and by points from Leonardo Mutti and Mihai Bobocica.
In the first singular Pistej immediately imposed his class and his experience (7-2) that Francesco Palmieri tried, at times, to counter. In the second set the Neapolitan remained in the race at the beginning then the Slovak took off , in the third set Pistej immediately stretched to the final 11 3. One to zero for Carrara
In the second singular the initiation between Mihai Bobocica was authoritative and the Greek Anastasios Riniotis found himself in considerable difficulty. The second set was more balanced and the Neapolitan standard bearer engaged the Carrarese much more, but not enough to conquer the set, the third set had a development or similar to the second and the Greek stopped at 7. Two zero for Carrara
On two to zero Leonardo Mutti beat Moldovan Benas Skirmantas by 3 to 0 with very balanced sets.
In the fourth singular Pistej faced Riniotis, the match had a two-speed development: the Greek started at full speed and won the first two sets, then Pistej took the measures and won the next three sets and with them the , consequently closing the match at 4 to 0
Abbiano asked coach Claudio Volpi for an opinion on the match “The score of 4 to 0 should not be misleading, the game was balanced in many moments and we were good at capturing the important moments, I am happy with everyone’s performance and three players, the Neapolitan team is a good team and that in the continuation of the championship will be able to take important satisfactions ”
“It was a very close match, on Thursday we won the Super Cup, on Friday they awarded us the gold star for Coni’s sporting merit and today we started the A1 series and the other championships, I am very happy with this week’s progress. meetings and hopes of having the local authorities close to the next projects ”comments President Guglielmo Bellotti
On Saturday 16 October at 7 pm at the sports hall in Reggio Emilia ‘Apuania Carrara will meet the local team Roma in a difficult match.
Results of the first day
Cagliari Reggio Emilia 4 2
Apuania Carrara Naples 4 0
Prato Messina 0 4
Castel Goffredo Norbello 4 1
Ranking after the first first leg
Apuania Carrara, Messina, Cagliari, Castel Goffredo 2
Naples, Cagliari, Naples, Norbello 0