As we told you yesterday, there has been a wave of partner changes in the padel professional, for both men and women, and among the novelties, we find the new pair Alix Collombon / Lorena Rufo.

Lorena Rufo: a 20-year-old rough diamond

His ex-partner now with Claudia Fernandez, Alix, has set her sights on a young player with great potential: Lorena Rufo.

“Lorena had asked me several times to play with her. We met by chance in Barcelona at the start of the holidays and we played very well together. So when Victoria told me that we were stopping, the choice was made naturally.”, explains the Lyonnaise to us.

More changes in one season than in four years!

If the French number 1 seems enthusiastic about the idea of ​​sharing the track with a player of undeniable talent, who is in 22ᵉ place in the WPT rankings, she recalls how these incessant changes which are now part of the daily lives of players are difficult to manage:

"We don't realize, but when we're a professional player, part of our career doesn't really depend on us, but depends on the vagaries, the changes that originally have nothing to do with us, but which can however impact us in one way or another. We would rather it were otherwise.”, she explains.

It must be said that Alix will know with Rufo her fourth partner of the year (after Mesa, Alonso and Iglesias), she who had only known three so far in Spain (Pujals, Traviesa and Castello) since 2018 !

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A special year therefore for the one who is still installed in the World Top 25, and who prefers long projects to ephemeral pairs. Let's hope for her that the mayonnaise will take with Lorena and that the two players will manage to create a lasting alliance!

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