Just a few hours after the dispute of the grand final of the fourth Master of the season of the World Paddle Tour Circuit, Óscar Solé offers us through his social networks the most complete and emotional analysis of a tournament with a great "spell".
Padel World Press .- The majestic and historical Farm of La Rural, in the heart of Palermo and which we had the opportunity to attend several times in the 90 decade when we dedicated ourselves to write about the Great Champions Hereford, Holando and Aberdeen Angus, became during this last week on the stage of the Great World Padel Champions.
A great assembly made by the local organization in the capital of world padel, in the country that generates geniuses and that opened the doors to the world of this blessed sport.
And the 'charm' of the wonderful Buenos Aires moved directly to the track, because Master we have lived, with the 'supporting actors' taking the leading role in this film called Paddle, although the Steven Spielberg remained the same ... Fernando Belasteguín and Pablo Lima.
The number 1 reaped their eleventh title of the season in Buenos Aires province (equaling last year's number), winning again in the final their most immediate pursuers, Sanyo Gutiérrez and Paquito Navarro, who in some passages of the party gave the sensation of power repeat what of Valencia. But unbelievably, after winning the second set in the tie break and when they could come higher, they gave up their first service in the final set and there they once again gave in to the claw and hunger of the INSACIABLES Bela and Lima.
It was, by the way, the only set that gave in the whole tournament, the sixth in what we have been in season, in the 54 matches that played: 4 against Sanyo-Paquito (two in the final of Valencia Master, one in A Coruña and another in Buenos Aires), one against Maxi Grabiel-Ramiro Moyano in the Canary Islands and, the other, against Borja Yribarren-Guga Váquez in the Master of Barcelona.
But we talked about 'spell' because several of the main couples stayed on the road quickly and others of less popularity reached unimaginable round. In this sense, one of the most outstanding cases is that of Argentines Aris Patiniotis and Cristian Germán Gutiérrez.
The marplatense and the puntano, accustomed to playing the previous phases, entered this master directly into the frame as 26 heads. They had in the first round the difficult compromise against the seventh best pair of the ranking, Maxi Grabiel-Ramiro Moyano and they gave the surprise. Then they left Tamame-Britos on the road to be planted for the first time in the World Padel Tour quarterfinals. And they could continue dreaming, because the move to the semifinals was scarred them like sand between their fingers before another couple that made their best tournament, Seba Nerone-Alex Ruiz.
And that 'embrujo' from Buenos Aires that we spoke of possessed precisely Nerone-Ruiz. Seba showed off in her homeland and infected the malagueño. They eliminated Lamperti-Mieres in the eighth and were about to give the big surprise in the semifinals, when they won by a resounding 2-6 the first set to Sanyo and Paquito.
What was not surprising was the performance of Franco Stupaczuk-Marcello Jardim. They put the public in their pockets. A tournament to frame, eliminating the Mendoza Open champions (Matías and Maxi) in the quarterfinals. And here another chapter of the 'spell', because nobody can imagine that in normal situations a stadium full of Argentines cheers a Brazilian player ... And much less if this happens less than 24 hours after being humiliated the Argentine national football team by its Brazilian namesake with a categorical 3-0.
And beware, because in the absence of a single tournament for the end of the season, the Chaqueño and the Brazilian have firm options to get into the Masters Finals of Madrid. To date, with updated ranking, they have surpassed Santana and Lahoz, so they will start at the Euskadi Open as eighth seed heads ... Come on, they have the Master in their hands.
To end this great week of paddle in Buenos Aires, the best farewell, the well-deserved recognition to old legends of this sport, to those who really made it great, those who got us this 'drug' in the body called Pádel ... Roby Gattiker, Horacio Alvarez Clementi, the brothers Gustavo and Javier Maquirriaín, Diógenes de Urquiza, Hernán Auguste, Adriana Costagliola, Cecilia Baccigalupo, La China Mazuchi, Oscar 'Cacho' Nicastro and many others absent in this celebration as the Lasaigues brothers, the Novillo Chicken, El Mago Sanz ...
Several 'sorcerers' of this sport, who delighted us with their magic and whose names will be written in golden letters in the history of the paddle.
This time we have lived it from afar, but soon we will return to feel closely the fervor and passion that the Argentine brothers have, to listen again to the penetrating voice of the great presenter and friend Bocha Gallardo.
See you soon Argentina!
Óscar Solé Beninca
Image: World Paddle Tour
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