Fifth day of competition and another big day of padel withAlicante Open from WPT 2021. The favorites did not shake during these 1 / 8th finals.

In the men

For men, the first match, which started at 09 a.m., opposed Juan Tello - Fede Chingotto à Momo Gonzalez et Javi Rico.
Despite an excellent start to the game from the underdogs, the outcome of the match was in favor of the Argentinian pair who managed to let the storm pass. She wins in the end 2-6 / 6-1 / 6-2.
The two friends will play their next match tomorrow in the 3rd part of the morning.

Surprised in Madrid for their first tournament together, Paquito Navarro - Martin Di Nenno left no chance for Juani Mieres et Alvaro Cepero. A 6-1 / 6-2 victory good for the confidence of this pair which should hurt this season.

Finally, to end the morning, we found the current number 1 Ale Galan et Juan lebron in a round of XNUMX opposing them to one of the little surprises of the last day
This is the binomial Javier Martinez et Augustin Gutierrez, who managed to eliminate yesterday Nacho Gadea and Victor Ruiz.
Without trembling, the favorites easily overcome the young hopefuls in 6-3 / 6-4 and thus reach the quarter-finals.

For the second part of the day, these are Pablo Lima et Agustin Tapia who launched hostilities against Zalo Rubio et Christian Fuster.
The Canon of Porto Alegre and the Genius of Catamarca managed to win 7-5 / 6-3 against the Spaniards.

 

We expected a close match between Silingo / Diaz and Stupaczuk / Ruiz but nothing happened. Indeed, the finalists of the last World Padel Tour Adeslas Madrid 2021, were there for the round of 8 and confirm the excellent impression left last week with a clear victory: 6-2 / 6-2

The shock of 15:30 p.m. has kept all its promises. Absent in Madrid Javi Ruiz et Uri Botello knew they would have a big game to play against Juan Martin Diaz and Coki Nieto. 
Yet dominated in the first set, JMD and his friend did not worry and ended up imposing their game to finish with a score of 2-6 / 7-6 (4) / 6/4!

At the end of the day we were able to find Miguel Lamperti et Arturo Coello who confirmed their good chemistry on the pitch by offering themselves a quarterback entry ticket against a pair that surprised yesterday by eliminating Maxi Sanchez and Lucho Capra, Sergio Alba Sanchez and Francisco Gil Morales. Always catchy, the players of Adrian Caviglia do not have to be ashamed of their performances: 7-5 / 6- 4.

Finally, the winners of the WPT Adeslas Madrid 2021, Sanyo Gutierrez and Fernando Belasteguin, were not surprised by Jon sanz Zalba and Aris Patiniotis who created a sensation yesterday by eliminating Javi Garrido and Juan Cruz Belluati in 1 / 16th! Victory 7/5 6/4 for the veterans.

We want to let enjoy the summaries in pictures of this day.

Première partie

Second part

At the girls

With our female friends, for the first match, it's no big surprise that Patricia Llaguno et Virginia Riera impose themselves in the face of Delfi Brea et Tamara Icardo 6-3 / 6-2.

On the 09:30 am time slot we found Victoria Iglesias et Aranzazu Osoro defeat Angela Caro and Arantxa Soriano in 6-3 / 7-6 (4).

The Martas (Ortega and Marrero) were quick to win and play a destructive game against their rivals.
They could not do anything.
Catalina Tenorio and Julieta Bidahorria bow 6-4 / 6-0.

At the same time our champion of France and the only survivor of this tournament, Alix Collombon saw himself fighting with his teammate Jessica castello facing a terrible team made up of Bea Gonzalez et Lucia Sainz.
This match had airs of deja vu, and for sure, it was nothing other than a remake for our French who after a defeat against them during the last tournament tried this time to obtain his revenge.
Unfortunately and despite the very good level of play of the Franco-Spanish pair, it does not manage to find the loophole to turn the situation around.
The Iberians qualify with a score of 6-1 / 6-4.

The morning continued with a meeting between Gemma Triay et Alejandra Salazar Without great difficulty they come to the end of Lucia Martinez placeholder image et Veronica Virseda in 6-2 / 6-1.

On the other court, we witnessed a full card from the champions of the last WPT Madrid 2021.
Indeed it is on a score of 6-0 / 6-1 that Ari Sanchez et Paula Josemaria have beaten Ana Fernandez et Anna Cortiles.

Marta Talavan et Lorena Rufo have qualified against Raquel Piltcher et Esther Carnicero in 6-4 / 6-4.

Finally the day ended with the meeting between Carla Mesa - Barbara las heras et Sandra Bellver - Claudia Jensen. Jorge de Benito's players won 6-1 / 6-3. Bellver and Jensen (only 15 years old!) Can still congratulate themselves on their journey, they who have won 3 matches in this tournament. Especially since this follows their round of XNUMX gleaned in Madrid, which bodes very well for the future!

We leave you here the images of this day:

Sebastien Carrasco

Future naturopath and passionate about padel, Seb is the health/food gentleman of Padel Magazine. He juggles between pala, quinoa and essential oils. For almost two years now he has been dealing with the news of the little yellow ball with the same passion.

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