It was the “blocking” of the match, which signed the end of the hopes of Lucho Capra and Maxi Sanchez to reach the quarter-finals of the WPT Buenos Aires Master. This blocking, it is to the credit of Paquito Navarro, forming the seeded 6 with Mike Yanguas.

It came down to 5-5 in the second set, as the Spaniards won the first 6-3. At 30/15 on his serve, Sanchez lands a powerful smash on Paquito, glued to the back window. This ball would have made the point 98 times out of 100, but not this time: the Andalusian not only succeeds in blocking the smash, but in addition he fires a hyper-spectacular winning passing shot (see the video and our capture below).

Paquito's unexpected passing on a smash by Sanchez Screenshot WPT

And while Capra and Sanchez had led the race in this second set, they were broken (on punto de oro) for the second time in a row. On this unexpected blockage, not only did the Argentinian dreams of the 2rd set vanish, but it was the match that fell into the pocket of the Spaniards (3-6, 3-7).

In the quarter, Navarro and Yanguas should challenge world No. 1s Lebron and Galan, unless they too are surprised by the very young Augsburger and Libaak, amazing yesterday against Lijo and Ruiz.

Three other quarterfinal posters are already known: Di Nenno / Nieto vs Tapia / Sanyo; Rico/Gutierrez vs. Bela/Coello and Lima/Stupa vs. Chingotto/Tello.

The end of round of XNUMX is to follow on WPT-TV.

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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