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A16 LOCAL
Thursday 9 augusT 2018

Aruba participating for the first time at the world

tournament of Beach Tennis

ORANJESTAD — It is the 7th first time, got a wild card able. In 2014 there was a the year earlier and fought ela surprised everyone and
consecutive year of the and automatically quali- huge interest in participat- hard for the 1st place. won the championship in
world tournament of Beach fied for the second round. ing in this tournament since Leaving Italy on the second the youth category.
Tennis organized by the In- In this round they will be 24 countries participated place. In 2017, 24 countries
ternational Tennis Federa- facing the team of Estonia. and here Italy took the tro- participated and the scen- We are certainly very proud
tion, the ITF, which is taking phy back home and Brazil ery changed again. Italy of our Team of Aruba who
place in Moscow, Russia. Here is a short history of the was in second place. became champion, Brazil has the courage to battle
For the first time Aruba is Beach Tennis Tournament. in second place and Russia between those big coun-
taking part of this tourna- This started in 2012 with a In 2015 more countries de- finished in third place. tries in Russia. We are sure
ment. The team of Aruba total of 15 countries par- cided to be part of the they are giving their utmost
consists of Anne Hoogen- ticipating. The winners that tournament which lead to For 2018, there are 25 coun- in order to position our is-
dam (46), Dominique (90), year where Italy and sec- a total of 28 countries. The tries participating in which land in high ranking score
Sander Castro (118) and ond place Brazil. In 2013 a surprise of this year was Aruba and South Africa are for this sport.
captain of the team Aksel total of 20 countries where certainly the home team there for the first time. This
Samardzic (14). The num- part of it and here Italy and Russia. Italy remained the tournament is on the pro- The organizers in Aruba,
ber mentioned behind their Brazil exchange places. world champion but Rus- fessional level but also they Beach Tennis Aruba, wants
names is their ranking on Which for Brazil was such sia managed to take the have the younger level to wish Aksel, Sander, Anne
the international Beach a big achievement seeing second place from Brazil. participating once again and Dominique all the best
Tennis board. that Italy is considered to 2016 had the highest re- this year. Last year Venezu- of luck in this tournament.q
be the best of the world in cord of countries partici-
The games already started this sport. Since 2013 Aruba pating ever registered with
on august 7 with the first has been trying to take 32 countries. Another sur-
round. Aruba, taking in part in this tournament but prise. Russia wasn’t happy
consideration that it is their for various reasons was not with the second place from