DIACONU and CLAPA conquered Europe

Tiny little girls with lionโ€™s strength and great will to fight, Adina DIACONU and Andreea CLAPA clinched the title in the cadet Girls Teamโ€™s Event at the European Youth Championships in Ostrava. In the final they overcame France. โ€œIt was,

Tiny little girls with lionโ€™s strength and great will to fight, Adina DIACONU and Andreea CLAPA clinched the title in the cadet Girls Teamโ€™s Event at the European Youth Championships in Ostrava. In the final they overcame France. โ€œIt was the final worth itโ€™s name. Four players out of Top 5 were involved. All of them showed great performance. Only the details prevailed,โ€ said coach Marian FILIPAS. And the detail that brought the difference was the coachโ€™s tactics. Every match Romania started with DIACONU.

โ€œNo one understood why, but I did it that way. It paid off eventually, despite the fact that in the final Marie MIGOT played that first match against DIACONU. We always had 2:0 and two chances if doubles lose. Adina was our ace in decisive game,โ€ said coach FILIPAS. Before final Romania was under pressure against Serbia.

โ€œIt was hard match but you have to expect something like that from the semi final.โ€

Thanks to agreement that President of the Romanian federation ROMANESCU made with the Olympic Committee both girls will be involved in special Olympic program.ย โ€œWe made special program for them and we hope they will achieve a good result in Rio 2016. They have excellent support. CLAPA will work in Olympic centre in Bistrita, whilst DIACONU will be in Slatinaโ€.

SZOCZ named those girl as her successorsโ€ฆ โ€œThey have quality that is for sure and that is something they proved already. However we still have to work ion CLAPAโ€™s mentality. She is still very afraid of losing the matches. We need to build up her winning mentality. It is her last cadet year and we do not have much time.โ€

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