The first title awarded in the 2023 Barrière Deauville Polo Cup: The Ladies Polo Cup – Diane Barrière. It was a particularly challenging tournament this year with five teams, each with had at least one high class player in his row participating in the Argentine Open, the flagship women’s polo tournament worldwide. Team Augustinus, with the two-time champion Argentine Open Champion, Lía Salvo and Paloma Lauro (2), Anais Rezkallah(2) and Aurelie Molitor (1) succeeded in defending the title won last year in Deauville. This triumph is the third Deauville title for nine goaler Lía Salvo, who won it for the first time in 2018. Team Augustinus won 4:3 goals against team Bar du Soleil (Megan Manubay (0), Leah Kawamoto (2), Polina Nazarova (4), Milagros Sanchez (7)).

Lía Salvo: “It was a very tough final, but I like this kind of match because it shows the level of the women’s here in Deauville is getting better every year. You could see it today with a very close and tough final where no one gave in. Today was a great show of teamwork: everyone scored their goal, Anais was voted best player in the final, and she helped me a lot. The other team was amazing, they were the same: four young players who played really, really well and hung on until the end. I knew it was going to be tough,” said Salvo. For the Argentine Open champion, winning in Deauville is always close to her heart: “I love coming here, it is my favorite destination. My father won the Coupe d’Or in 1974. For me, playing in Deauville is a tradition and it reminds me of him. I always have a lot of people I love here in Deauville.”

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