Padel Magazine - The Lisbon Open has indeed taken off. The top eight players in the world have once again shown their dominance on the WPT Tour.

Round of 8 summary

With the exception of Sanyo Gutiérrez and Maxi Sánchez who had to put together a set, play a 3e set ended in the tie-break and finally come to grips with a pair decidedly very dangerous to know Germán Tamame and Alvaro Cepero, the other matches are have gone smoothly for favorites.

The “Lisboa Racket Center” club has made it possible to welcome fans of this sport. The world number 1 allowed to show once again that they were the best because even by playing averagely, they were able to pass without many sores. 27 consecutive victories, and they are not ready to stop. The poor opponents of the day, Bainad and Gisbert managed to grab 3 games (6/1 and 6/2). No more.

Meanwhile, the Princes leave 6 games to Marcello Jardim and Guillermo Lahoz (6 / 2 and 6 / 4). They send a message clearly to the global 1 numbers.

The surprise was rather the severity of the score between yet close pairs in the standings and the game. Yet Cristian Gutiérrez and Matías Díaz made short work of Agustín Gómez Silingo and Federico Quiles by curling them 6/0 6/2 .

In the rest of the matches, Lamperti-Grabiel eliminated Díaz-Limones 6/2 6/1, while Reca-Nerone won their match against Nicoletti-Alonso Martínez 6/1 6/3. Navarro-Muñoz and Allemandi-Poggi also pass.

Summary of quarters

Again, no big surprise, since the four best players in the world are in the semifinals.

On the other hand, one match particularly marked the day of Friday: that of Sanyo Gutiérrez and Maxi Sánchez against Miguel Lamperti and Maxi Grabiel. Spectacular victory for the “youngsters” in 3 sets 6/2 5/7 and 7/6.

We want to say almost "of course", the Kings continue their way and see an 28e victory fall into the purse against Gaby Reca and Sebastián Nerone (7 / 5 6 / 3), while Cristian Gutiérrez and Matías Díaz have Paquito Navarro and Jordi Munoz: 7 / 5 7 / 5.

Finally, the world number 2, Juani Mieres and Pablo Lima offered too few options against the pair Adrián Allemandi and Fernando Poggi to avoid the debacle (6/2 6/1).

This Saturday at 17 p.m. at the Center club in Lisbon, we will have the right to semi-finals which promise to be great.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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