The P500s follow and resemble each other in the south of Alsace. The underdogs change, but in the end it's always Diego Garcia and Teri Groll who win.

This is what happened this Sunday during the P500 Cupra organized at 4Padel of Saint Louis, close to Basel. The two friends from Mulhouse, fresh out of their tennis season, were keen to reconnect with the padel. Ranked 69th French with only about fifteen tournaments including few P1000 or P2000, they were seeded n°1, but had to be wary of the TdS 2, composed of the 29th Frenchman Yanis Muesser and the 337th Hugo Virag.

Two match balls discarded

Sunday morning, the latter had a delicate start in the quarter-finals by saving two match points against Kilian Lecocq and Alex Decoz, beaten only in the super tie-break (4/6 7/5 1/0). Their semi-final was also disputed against the Hispano-Croatian pair Sanchez / Palesko, who gave up only 7/6 7/5. In the other half of the table, Groll and Garcia left, on the way to the final, only seven games in total to the pairs Rappeneau / Arnoux and Schmuda / Stark.

The start of the final seemed to follow the same path: Virag and Muesser, broken twice, lost 6-2 in the space of twenty minutes. But the Strasbourgeois did not give up and gradually managed to push the Mulhousiens to the fault and to grant themselves a break, enough to conclude the second set 6/3. Tightening the bolts and erasing their mistakes, Groll and Garcia left with better intentions in the 3rd set, which they logically dominated 6/2.

This event sponsored by Cupra is the third P500 won by these two players this season in Saint-Louis, after those of December et March.

Palmares

  1. Groll / Garcia
  2. Muesser / Virag
  3. Stark / Schmuda
  4. Palesko / Sanchez
  5. Lecocq / Decoz
  6. Rappeneau / Arnoux
  7. Gruber / Ortschitt
  8. Albert / Berard
  9. Groll/Gerber
  10. Mangin / Mill

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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