Maybe On Honeymoon?

Vienna, AUT - 18 November © Roland

The defending GrandSlam Champions did not make it to Shanghai. They forfait the opportunity to make this their fourth consecutive win of a GrandSlam Final. Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus , MDA, have notified WDSF and the organisers of their decision not to dance the Final this year. But reasons were not given.

Nobody among the other finalists knows what could have led them to withdraw. Maybe – after Gabriele’s history-making marriage proposal on the floor at the 2017 World Latin in Vienna, AUT, three weeks ago – they decided to elope. To make their story even more wildly romantic! Who knows? In any case, if they should be on their honeymoon somewhere, we hope they will enjoy it.

Their absence opens new perspectives for the couples here. First for Konstantin Gorodilov and Dominika Bergmannova, EST, who got a last minute-invitation to take the place of Gabriele and Anna in this year’s “Final Showdown in Shanghai.”

But then each and every one of the 13 Latin couples could stand to benefit, one way or another, from a shoo-in places available in the semi-final, in the final and on the podium. Here they are – in the alphabetical order of the man’s last name:

Anton Aldaev - Natalia Polukhina, RUS
Marius-Andrei Balan - Khrystyna Moshenska, GER
Umberto Gaudino - Louise Heise, DEN
Konstantin Gorodilov - Dominika Bergmannova, EST
Andrey Gusev - Vera Bondareva, RUS
Timur Imametdinov - Nina Bezzubova, GER
Edgar Marcos Borjas - Alina Nowak, POL
Paul Moldovan   - Cristina Tatar, ROU
Charles-Guillaume Schmitt - Elena Salikhova, FRA
Andrea Silvestri - Martina Varadi, HUN
Armen Tsaturyan - Svetlana Gudyno, RUS
Bangbang Yan   - Jing Zhu, CHN
Timur Yusupov   - Sofia Kharina, RUS

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An 8-camera production in High Definition covering the decisive stages of the GrandSlam Latin Final. With full graphics but without commentary. The programme is made up of four parts: the full-length semi-final, interviews with the finalists, the full-length final and interviews with the medallists. Approximately 90-minutes running time.