The SD at the Cup of China has been skated, and at the end of a performance stained by various little problems, Federica and Massimo are currently in second position.
Their score is : 57.21 (TES 26.28 + PCS 30.93)
Here you can find all the scores
So, the ranking after the SD is:
1 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 64.12
2 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 57.21
3 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 55.85
4 Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN HUN 52.69
5 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 49.70
6 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN 48.10
7 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 45.33
8 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 44.47
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 40.19
10 Isabella CANNUSCIO / Ian LORELLO USA 38.34
This is the starting order for the FD tomorrow:
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Isabella CANNUSCIO / Ian LORELLOUSA
2 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN
3 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA
4 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN
5 Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL CAN
Warm-Up Group 2
6 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN
7 Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN HUN
8 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS
9 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
10 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA
Now, thanks to a wonderful user of the Figure Skating Universe forum (cheriepopo - thank you very much!) we have the first quotes directly from the press conference after the SD:
question: the skirt problem...
Massimo: I stuck my skate with the skirt, that's the problem...this is our first competition this season and it's always hard to start out the season, it's really a bit of a shame that we lost a lot of points, but it's OK, I think tomorrow we'll be happy any way.
and there's a question to all the 3 about their goals toward Sochi...oops, it's so early isn't it?
Massimo didn't get the question, Fabian was explaining it to him!
Massimo - the biggest goals for us are Euros and Worlds, and we hope to get gold at Euros. But all three of us here have the chance to be on the podium of Euros, so we'll just have to work hard. the SD is interesting.
