News Beach volleyball 25/08/2013 Emanuel in Moscow final for the third year in a row Moscow, Russia, August 25, 2013 – After winning theFIVB Moscow Grand Slam in 2011 and 2012, Brazil’s Emanuel Rego reached thefinal in the Russian capital for the third year in a row. But this time notwith Alison Cerutti but with young Evandro Goncalves. The Brazilians play Latvia’s Janis Smedins and Aleksandrs Samoilovs in the VodnyStadium at 19.30 on Sunday evening. The Latvians prevented an all-Brazilianfinal by defeating Ricardo Santos and Alvaro Morais Filho 2-0 (21-14, 21-19) inthe semifinal. Smedins and Samoilovs won the first set with aggressive play, but gave awaytheir lead half way through the second set. At 16-19 the Brazilians seemed tolead the match into a tiebreak, but with a service ace and a big block bySamoilovs on Ricardo the Latvians levelled at 19-19 to claim victory in twosets after all. “It’s always feels great when you win, especially in matches like this”,Samoilovs said. “At the end when we were down 17-19 and then to win 21-19. It’sa great feeling.” “We just had to make some good services”, Smedins added. “And we did. Then it’seasy to play block and defence and we made four points in a row. It’s hugeagainst Brazil, pretty impressive.” He is looking forward to adding another World Tour medal to their one gold andtwo silvers earlier this year. “It will be another tough match, but we willfight till the end, till the gold.” Emanuel and Evandro beat Austria Their opponents Emanuel and Evandro needed three sets (16-21, 21-17, 15-12)against Alexander Horst and Lorenz Petutschnig. The Austrians reached thesemifinals much to their own surprise, since this is only their firsttournament together. Strong serving by Horst won Austria the first set, but the Brazilians came backstrong after that. For Emanuel and Evandro Moscow was also their first eventtogether after the national federation decided to mix some of the teams up forthe rest of the season. For Evandro, who won gold with Vitor Felipe at the Grand Slam in Berlin justtwo weeks ago, this was hard but he was also happy he was given the opportunityto play with his idol. The big guy was a bit overwhelmed after reaching his second final in a row. “Iwas not ready for any of these two finals, but I am happy I did it andespecially with Emanuel. It’s a good feeling and very emotional.” The 40-year old Emanuel was proud that he reached a World Tour final with yetanother partner. “It is a great feeling. And every time I play with a newpartner I try to do something different. I try to give all my best to Evandroand I think we did well. It was not easy to play in this cold weather, so it’s verysatisfying we won here.”FIVBMoscow Grand Slam Tournament PageFIVBMoscow Grand Slam Men’s Main DrawFIVBMoscow Grand Slam Women’s Main DrawFIVB Moscow Grand Slam TwitterAccount Print this Page News {{item.LocalShortDate}} {{item.Title}} All the News