Twelve hours after last night's final of the 2015 GrandSlam Latin Hong Kong we try to put everything into perspective. It all started in the early afternoon with 85 couples having entered the third leg of the Series and all but the star couples with round-one exemptions taking to the floor. And it ended just before midnight - when Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus, MDA, claimed their second successive GrandSlam title of the year.
In between there were progressive rounds of great dancing, with Asian couples demonstrating that they are on the verge of breaking the hegemony of the Europeans. It is only a matter of time until we will see them dancing in the semi-finals of a GrandSlam.
In Hong Kong, this stage of the competition was again reserved to the couples taking up the highest positions in the WDSF World Ranking. New faces making it that far and other, similar, surprises are definitely not a regular occurance in the GrandSlam Series that has the ranking's top 20 travelling the world to accrue ever more points to consolidate their positions.
It didn't come as a surprise that the composition of the final was identical to the one we had seen two months earlier in Wuhan, CHN. But that Yury Simachev and Anastasia Klokotova, RUS, ended up in third, their highest GrandSlam placing ever, couldn't be described better than was done by Trần Hiếu Minh, one of our followers on Facebook: "surprising !!! can't believe Yury+Anatasia knock down #4,5,6. Seems like they're doing very well at Asian grandslams ;-D;"
Trần Hiếu Minh goes on to comment on some of the other finalists: "Armen+Svetlana are having their revenge against Balan & Moshenska, but too sad they can't keep #1 at European championship ..." That much for a post-GrandSlam analysis!
There is an immense backlog of videos still to go up over the next few hours. They cover the rounds of 48 and 24! The Vimeo on Demand programme on semi-final and final will get released on Friday 26 June. Pre-order here!
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