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BRAZILIAN BOYS PUT TWO TEAMS IN THE SEMIFINALS

Por CBTM

The Brazilian Junior will have this Friday, on its first day of decisions, two strong semi-finals. The A team of the national team composed by Efraim Carvalho and Ricardo Kojima will face at 9 am the French team, which in the quarter-finals defeated without any difficulty the D team from Brazil. Efraim and Ricardo also went through the quarterfinals easily, beating the United States of America by 3 matches to 0.

Efraim Carvalho doesn't have expectations about the semi-finals tomorrow.

"I feel I'm well in the competition and after the scare of almost losing in the second round, I think I got the chills and I found my rhythm in the game. I don't know the French, my opponents in the semifinals, but it doesn't matter, because I will go in with the same determination as always".

The player highlighted that he doesn't feel the responsibility for being the main player of the Brazilian A team.

"To me A is a letter. It doesn't matter. The important is to represent Brazil".

In the other quarter-final, the boys of Brazil's B team, Guilherme Bergamini and Eric Mancini didn't manage to overcome the Portuguese squad and lost by 3 games to 0. For the Portuguese: celebration.

"We are very happy with the result and there is space to improve for the semifinals. It is our first time in Brazil and we like this competition a lot. We have been practicing for a week in Brazil, in Marilia (city in the state of São Paulo) and it has been very beneficial for us. Here we have found players with a different game style, really penrollers and we have been experiencing a lot of this kind handle of the racket, which is extinct in Europe", said a happy Vitaly Efimov.

Brazil's C team (Daniel Costa and Humberto Manhani) won by 3 matches to 0 over El Salvador and have also qualified for the semi-finals.

SEMI-FINALS:

BRAZIL A v FRANÇA

BRAZIL C v PORTUGAL