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The Latin Showdown in Shanghai

The Showdown in Shanghai © Wang Yi

The Latin Showdown in Shanghai proved every bit as suspenseful as anyone could have expected. The powers shifted back and forth in the battles for first - and for some of the other places too. In the absence of three-time GrandSlam Final winners Goffredo - Matus, MDA, it was not Armen Tsaturyan - Svetlana Gudyno, RUS, the runners-up in four of the 2017 Series' regular legs, who claimed first, but Marius-Andrei Balan - Khrystyna Moshenska, GER.

They won their first GrandSlam competition by the narrowest of margins - not even three decimal points - over the Russians. They finished off the 2017 Series on a high note, after they had to withdraw from the first leg in Helsinki, FIN, due to exhaustion.

A similarly narrow margin separated the fourth from the fifth couple in the final standing. Andrey Gusev - Vera Bondareva, RUS, came out on top over Charles-Guillaume Schmitt - Elena Salikhova, FRA.

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