A1's Swedish Master Padel has just started in Halmstad. The tournament is still in its infancy, but it has already offered its fair share of unexpected moments and twists.
An unexpected victory and rain
The day had started well. From the first moments, the Swedish fans were delighted. Anton Andersson and Albin Olsson achieved the first feat of this Masters in Hamlstad. Driven by their audience, the Swedish pair disposed of young Spaniards Urzola and Guiral in three sets 5/7 6/3 6/3.
A little earlier in the morning, Cristian Gutierrez and Jesus Ruiz made a brilliant start to the competition. The Spanish-Argentinian pair won easily against Antonio Alamillo and South African Adam Van Harte, on a score of 6 / 4 6 / 2. In the round of XNUMX, Gutierrez and Ruiz could face Frugoni and Del Moral.
After the first two games of the day, the rain came to the courts of Halmstad. The third meeting between Rodri Lopez/Dani Blanco and Mati Ortiz/Lucas Cortese a finally able to start. The Argentinians took advantage of the Spanish pair's sluggish start to the game and took the first set 6/3.
But at the start of the second set, the precipitation intensified. A few hours later, the organization of A1 Padel made the decision to postpone the other six meetings scheduled for the day.
A busy program with 14 matches
The day promises to be intense in Sweden: 14 matches are on the program this Tuesday ! The matches started this morning with the victory of Rodri Lopez and Dani Blanco. Led a zero set, the Spaniards were able to revolt in the second set. After winning the second set 7/5, they unrolled and won 3/6 7/5 6/0. Direction the 1/8th finals for them.
In the second meeting of the day, Tomas Cheda and Alfonso Sanchez easily disposed of their opponents Santiago Pineda and Joaquim Florensa, with a win in two sets 6 / 3 6 / 4.
The program of the day:
- Order 3 : Keagean Rooy / Jason Blakey-Milner vs. Maximiliano Sanchez / Andres Britos (TS7)
- Order 4 : Federico Chiostri / Pablo Barrera (TS6) vs. Maximo Maldonado / Joaquin De Astoreca
- Order 5 : Santiago Rolla / Facundo Lopez vs. Juan Ignacio De Pascual / Gonzalo Alfonso
- Order 6 : Franco Dal Bianco / Maximiliano Arce (TS1) vs. Javier Perez/Victor Saenz
- Order 7 : Gustavo Nunes / Miguel Oliveira (TS8) vs. Diego Pascual / Raúl Peralta
- Order 8 : Ignacio Archieri / Teo Gamondi vs Vasco Pascoal / Pedro Perry
- Order 9 : Daniel Appelgren / Viktor Stjern vs Oier Zuazua / Daniel Martinez
- Order 10 : Alejandro Perez / Marc Monne vs. Pablo Deltell / Santiago Castañeyra
- Order 11 : Relis Ferreyra / Martin Abud Kuhner vs Igor Amondarain
- Order 12 : Vinni Di Francesco / Alberto Garcia vs. Santiago Frugoni / Matias Dal Moral (TS5)
- Order 13 : Agustin Torre / Diego Ramos (TS3) vs. Franco Ceretani / Alejandro Garayo
- Order 14 : Higo Ensslin / Matias Gonzalez vs. Leonel Aguirre / Adrian Allemandi (TS2)
You can follow the matches live on the channel A1's youtube Padel :
A fan of oval football, round ball but also racket sports, he was stung by the padel during his adolescence in Galicia. As comfortable in front of the camera as behind a microphone, Vince will be able to bring his vision and expertise as a fan of the little yellow ball.