The tenimesistasDaniela Fonseca andJorge Moisés Campos they will go to theOlympic Games for the second time in a row, thanks to their victory against the Chileans Paulina Vega and Nicolás Burgos that catapulted them to the final of the mixed doubles of theXIX Pan American Games.
Fonseca and Campos defined the match this Monday - four sets to three - against the hosts, who had just won the crown in the recent continental competition held in Havana.
“The strategy was to try to nullify the attacks of Nicolás, who is in very good shape. “We knew that going against him gave us the possibility of tilting the game in our favor,” Campos declared to the digital portal.JIT.
With the stands of the Olympic Training Center against them, the Cuban exponents did not stray from the path of success, and this same day they will face the Brazilian duo of Bruna Takahashi and Vitor Ishiy, winners 4-2 over the Canadians Zhen Wang and Mo Zhang in the other semifinal.
“We are making history and that is comforting. Personally, securing my first silver medal in the Pan American Games is an honor, butwe are going for gold with everything”, assured Campos.
Fonseca, meanwhile, described his most frenetic performance. “At times I became desperate, I wanted to make the point and that was not the way. “I calmed down in the last set and let Moisés attack,” he commented.
Their track record includes participation in the last edition of theOlympic Games in Tokyo. On that occasion, the Cubans lost in their first presentation against the Germans Petrissa Solja and Patrick Franzisca.
In the last edition of the Pan-American fair inFive 2019, Campos achieved bronze metal in the team category.
The athlete originally from the Cuban capital will fight for his place in the final in the men's doubles alongsideAndy Pereira.
Other performances of the table tennis day for Cuba were more discreet. Four more representatives of the island reached the round of 32. Of them, onlyEstela Crespo and Daniela Fonseca won their matches and entered the next phase.
Meanwhile, in the sails, the boatDennier Infante He placed 18th with 73 points among 22 competitors.
In team sports, the girls of thewater polo They beat the Mexican women's team 14-11 with partial scores of 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 1-3.
The beginning of hostilities of group B in themen's handball It came with a tight 24-25 goal defeat for the Cuban team against Uruguay, at the Viña del Mar Sports Gymnasium.
Cuba maintains sixth position in the overall medal table of the Pan American Games, now with 10 gold medals, after those won by the judokasIvan Silva (+90 kg), Idalis Ortiz (+78 kg) andAndy Granda (+100 kg).
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