After four days of impossible points, joys, disappointments, surprises and plenty of paddle tennis, the penultimate phase of one of the most special tournaments of this season arrived. This is how the teammates of Adidas Pádel told us everything that happened in the exciting round of the semifinals.
Padel World Press .- On Sunday, September's 06 will be the big day. The finalists are already known and the 20 couples will leave everything on the track to raise that glass with which they have been dreaming all week. There are some clear favorites, but in sports, as in life, you never know. Sometimes, you just have to believe in one and go out and give it all on the track.
Juan Alfonso, judge referee of the competition, well knows what it is to give everything. And, after four days of competition, still looking for a few hours to fall asleep. Late in the evening we could talk to this great professional, who confessed that the level in the semifinals, especially cadet and junior, had been spectacular, but highlighted the fabulous commitment of all athletes. In scoop, told us some ideas that were discussed today to change the system of competition for next year, which would include among other things, eight heads of series, which would be exempt until the round of 16 and a previous round for those of lower ranking With this, the concentration of parties in a few days would be avoided, something positive for athletes and professionals.
We must remember that tomorrow they will be able to be seen through the web of the Spanish Federation of Paddle, the junior male and female finals. The first at 12:00 noon and the second at 10:00 hrs. With this, the championship of Spain for minors will be concluded. However, until that happens, we will have to see the finalists parade in all categories, fighting for a common dream, to be the champions.
Male Benjamin
Numbers two and numbers seven staged a shock of such intensity that it seemed like an anticipated final. All a pleasure that in the penultimate round, players are delivered in this way. Endless points, winners impossible to reach a final set that none seemed to want to win or rather, none wanted to lose. And here, Valentín Volpe and Alejandro Alcalá, perhaps due to their greater experience in these games, knew how to temper the nerves and get their vein of champions, to overcome Ignacio Romero and Guillermo Collado by 10-6. A great applause deserve both couples. Hopefully the grand final is a level similar to what we saw in this game.
The incredible thing was that the second game followed the same script as the first. And it is that perhaps, due to their youth, it is more difficult for these little athletes to close the matches. Likewise, the meeting between Marcos González and Jaume Romera against Asier Martínez and David Gala had to be decided in sudden death. Here, the highest ranking player also prevailed, the number three, who with the same result, beat the sixth, Martínez - Gala, and will face Valentín and Alejandro in the grand final.
Benjamin Female
Less evenly matched were the semifinals of the girls in the competition. On the one hand, the seeds number 2, Lucía Rosa - Anna Ortiz, won the number 4, Aitana Manzanares - Julia Escardo, in 2 sets.
The Dols Bauza, Paula and Sara twins, endorsed the predictions that place them as one of the great promises of the paddle and, from their position 10 of the ranking, they won the first seeds, Alexandra Torralba and Alba Gallardo, clearly. They will be a very tough rival these sisters in the final because, despite starting at a disadvantage against rivals of higher birth, have been planted in the final and go clearly for it.
Male Alevín
There will be a final between 2 numbers and 1 numbers of the ranking after winning both pairs clearly their commitments. Therefore, there can not be the end of the morbid, which supposed to see the champions of last year in Benjamin, Pablo Cardona and José María Aliaga, this time fighting face to face. However, I'm sure Jose Maria will be happy that his old fatigue partner fights for the male fry scepter.
Female Alevín
Two relatively simple matches for the finalists. In the first, the 2 numbers beat their rivals in two sets with forcefulness. However, the seeds 1 number, Paula Aguilar and Marta Borrero, succumbed to one of the couples in the shape of the championship, Lorena Rufo and Carmen Goenaga.
Male child
The final of the favorites in male children will also be produced. Alejandro Ramillete will try to win again the final that was resisted last year, this time with Eduardo Alonso as a teammate. To achieve this they will have to win the number two, Alex Arroyo and Miguel Yanguas (finalist last year in alevín). A final of high flights which will be played tomorrow.
Female Children
Numbers one and two will face each other in the grand final tomorrow at the 10: 15 in the City of the Racket. It will be hard for these girls to sleep today thinking about what awaits them tomorrow. Two couples who surely know each other by heart will have to enhance their virtues and bring out the mistakes of their rival, emotion is served. Will the aspiring Begoña and Marta win? Or, on the contrary, will the two Cristinas depart as favorites? Both couples arrive without having given a single set, it seems difficult to bet on one of them, so we will have to check it tomorrow.
Male Cadete
One of the surprises of the championship, which was advancing in the tournament without making much noise but with extreme solvency, the pair Ignacio Vilariño and José Solano, numbers 16 of the ranking, will fight for the championship, after defeating in 2 sets the pair formed by José María de Vera and Jaime Muñoz, number five in the ranking. To achieve this, they will have nothing more and nothing less than to defeat the current male children's champion, Javier Garrido, and his partner Javier García, one of the rankings with almost 4000 points higher in the standings compared to their rivals. In principle, the Javier seem favorites for the final, but you never know. Tomorrow at 12: 00 we will know.
Female cadet
The world upside down. This time the two big favorites fell to the two contenders. Numbers 3 and 4 of the ranking took out their best paddle to surpass the first two heads of series.
The first match was decided in the last set, where Marta Sabino and Macarena Caballero were better than Alba Pérez and Paula Macías. Once again, the couple number two will stay at the gates of the championship, because last year they fell in the grand final.
The second match was decided more clearly for the number four, Helga García and Beatriz González. In two sets they gave a good account of the favorites, with a clear 6-1 and 6-3.
Junior Male
Surprise in the semifinals junior, where the pressure could to the head of series number 1, Curro Soriano and Fernando Romero, who could not beat Javier Rico and Eric Ginel. The number 4 of the ranking clearly won in a match dominated from start to finish, imposing 6-4 and 6-2.
But without a doubt the match by antonomasia was lived between the seeds of series number two, José Carlos Gaspar and Jerónimo González, and the number three, Jorge Nieto and Javier González, champions in 2014 in Category Cadet. After a more or less placid first set, Jorge and Javier were ahead in the game. However, the number two resumed, to match the shock in the tie break of the second. In the third set, total equality, which led the contestants to a definite sudden death, where the third-ranked players knew how to close the match and will fight the 12 tomorrow: 00 against Javier Rico and Eric Ginel.
Junior Female
And they do not get tired of winning. Marta Ortega returned to stand in the final after winning with her partner Ariana Sánchez in two comfortable sets, by 6-0 and 6-2 to number four in the ranking. One of its members, Juncal Aizpurua, surrendered to the champions in one of his tweet, with total sportsmanship.
On the other hand, at number two, the grand finale escaped them between the fingers, after losing the two sets to the tie break.
It seems complicated that Nuria Díaz and Mónica León unseat the current champions. However, if there is a moment to do prowess, the final of the Spanish minors championship is the best scenario.
Female junior team
Surely, the kids today will have a hard time falling asleep. In his head, tactics will go around to disarm his rival. Night of confessions in the City of the Racket, where friendships won throughout the championship make winners and losers come together in a harmony that only sport can offer. And it is that this is paddle, a sport that, although invented a Mexican, the Spanish, and in this case the minors of Spain are given very, very well ...
As he said, good night, and good luck.
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