part in the Italian beach volleyball Championship. The made eight appearances in the World Tour, where they reached 4th place in a Satellite in Eboli. They won the Italian Championship on the beach of Ostia the same year, hitting three 17th places in the World Tour and ending up 43rd in the World Ranking. In 2008, they collected 17 attendances at the World Tour and 2,138 points: a 17th placement, two 13th, four 9th and a 7th place in Sanya, China. They missed by only two positions the Olympic qualification, earning the 3rd place in the Italian Championship. They represented the 26th team in the world (the only Italian team in the first 40 positions). At the end of the year they were removed from the National Italian Team. Since 2009, still with Gioria, they have been a freelance professional team representing Italy in international tournaments. They won the 2nd position in the Italian Championship, playing five stages of the European Championship and reaching the 5th place in the final of Sochi. They played 11 stages of the World Tour (four times 9th, once 13th and three times 17th) also picking up the best performance ever in the history of Italian beach volleyball at a Grand Slam, the 5th place in Marseille in July 2009. At the end of the season they were ranked 20th in the FIVB world ranking with 2,200 points, the Italian couple with the highest score in the world ranking, among men and women. In 2010, they played and won the first two stages of the Italian Championship in Pescara and Maratea, finishing 4th at the third stage of Milan. They led the Italian championship with 640 points. In June, they won a stage at the Swiss Championship in Locarno. They had ten appearances at the World Tour collecting three 25th places (Shanghai Open, Grand Slam of Rome and The Hagues by forfeit) three 17th places (Grand Slam of Stavanger, Grand Slam of Gstaad and Kristiansand), three 9th places (Seoul Open, Grand Slam of Moscow and Phuket). Due to a compound fracture to the little finger of Gioria's right hand reported during a pool play held on July 8 at the Grand Slam of Gstaad (where after two forfeits they reached the 17th place), the couple were forced to stop and could not play the stage of Marseille Open and Grand Slam of Klagenfurt. With Patricia