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Spain beat Italy 4.5-2.5 and won the European Team Championship for Girls on the Golf D’Hossegor course (par 71), in the city from which the club takes its name, in France. The winners turned the game around with a 2-0 in the doubles which made things particularly difficult for the Azzurrine, who made themselves the authors of a very generous performance rewarded with a silver which also encompasses all the other good things that they showed in the tournament.The points for the Spaniards in the foursomes were obtained by Paula Martin Sampedro/Anna Canado Espinal (2&1 over Natalia Aparicio/Paris Appendino) and Andrea Revuelta Goicoechea/Rocio Tejedo Mulet, who prevailed on the last hole against Francesca Fiorellini/Ginevra Coppa (1 up ).
In the single blue points of Francesca Pompa (3&2 on Cloe Amion Villarino) and Francesca Fiorellini, who overwhelmed Anna Canado Espinal (7&6), then the decisive ones of the Iberian Paula Martin Sampedro (5&4 on Matilde Partele) and Andrea Revuelta Goicoechea (2&1 on Natalia Aparicio) and tied between Rocio Tejedo Mulet and Geneva Cup.The winners finished the 36-hole medal qualification in first place (the only team to have expressed themselves under par) and then, before facing Italy, they beat Ireland sharply (6,-0,5) and the Netherlands (6-1).Italy, after having been admitted to the first round with the sixth place in qualifying, distinguished itself in the match play first beating France (4-3), who were defending the title, and then with a great comeback Sweden (4- 3) after a 0-2 deficit in the foursomes.For the Azzurri it is the sixth silver in the 29 editions of the event in which they have achieved two successes during a great five-year period in which they have also conquered three second places (2014, 2015, 2017), with the other two in 1995 and 1999 .In the third-place play-off, the Netherlands beat Sweden 4-3.
In fifth place Ireland (3-2 over England) and in seventh place Denmark (3-2 over France).The Azzurrine were supported by Roberto Zappa, Head Coach of the Women’s National Amateur Team, by Captain Anna Roscio, Team Manager of the Women’s National Team, and by coach Alex Senoner.European Ladies’ Team Championship – Italy beat Iceland 4-1 and finished 13th in the European Ladies’ Team Championship on the Tawast Golf Club & Country Club course (par 72), in Hämeenlinna, Finland , where the title went to Spain who prevailed 4.5-2.5 over England.Never questioned the result of the Italians who conquered the point in doubles with Maria Vittoria Corbi/Matilde Innocenti Angelini (4&3 on Anna Julia Olafsdottir/Heiorun Anna Hlynsdottir), then closed the account Caterina Don (3&2 on Andrea Bergsdottir) and Benedetta Moresco (4&3 on Saga Traustadottir), blue who last week in the US Women’s Open, female Major, was first among the amateurs (33rd).
Equal between Anna Zanusso and Hulda Clara Gestsdottir and between Alessia Nobilio and Perla Sol Sigurbrandsdottir. Along the way Italy was admitted to the second round after the tenth place in qualifying, then in the first two knockout matches they lost against Finland (4-1) and were right by Wales (3-2)As mentioned, Spain overcame England, who had scored in the previous two editions and who hoped to become the third team to score the hat-trick in a row after Sweden, from 2018 to 2020, and Spain itself, from 2003 to 2007 , when the cadence was biennial.
The superiority of the Iberian women in singles made the difference. Bronze to Germany.The results. Final: Spain-England 4.5-2.5; 3rd place: Germany-Switzerland 6-1; 5th: Sweden-Czech Republic 4-1; 7th: France-Ireland 3.5-1.5; 9th: Denmark-Finland 3-2; 11th: Austria-Scotland 3-2; 13th: Italy-Iceland 4-1; 15th: Slovakia-Wales 3-2.The blues were accompanied by Stefano Sardi (captain), Enrico Trentin (Advice Giver) and Stefano Soffietti (coach).
