While Alix Collombon and Victoria Iglesias suffered the law of the Alayeto sisters on the central track (5/7 0/6), the small Palais des Sports in Toulouse hosted an interesting round of 4. The No. 21 seed Paquito Navarro / Federico Chingotto was pitted against the always dangerous Gonzalo Rubio and Alex Arroyo, respectively 25st and XNUMXth in the WPT rankings.

But the latter, from the start of the match, were taken by the throat by the Spanish-Argentine pair, with a Chingotto always exemplary in the construction of the game, impassable at the net, and an airy and creative Navarro, multiplying the vibora lasers in both angles of the field. The games quickly paraded in favor of the favourites, who recited a padel of dream, for the greatest pleasure of the spectators.

Opposite, Rubio withstood the shock a little better than his partner, the latter alternating the best and more often the worst, like these three two-handed backhands which completely escaped him in the same game. Two breaks later and the set was concluded on the score of 6/2.

The start of the second run was tighter, with each team holding its commitment quite easily. The Spanish pair then gained confidence and chained more points, which created some reactions of frustration from Paquito, disappointed not to make the hole as easily as in the 1st set.

Navarro and Chingotto even had to successfully defend a break point for the first time. The two teams arrived at 4/4, it was finally on one of the rare decisive points of the game that the TdS4 managed to take off 5/4. Paquito's last service game made it possible to thrust players offering too many points and to conclude 6/2 6/4 in 75 minutes of play.

In the quarterfinals, Paquito and Federico will be opposed to Javier Garcia Mora and Javier Barahona, who created the surprise by dominating 6/3 6/3 Maxi Sanchez and Lucho Capra.

After 40 years of tennis, Jérôme falls into the pot of padel in 2018. Since then, he thinks about it every morning while shaving… but never shaves pala in hand! Journalist in Alsace, he has no other ambition than to share his passion with you, whether you speak French, Italian, Spanish or English.

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