This Sunday was played the final of World Padel Tour Alfafar Challenger who opposed the pair on the men's side Gonzalo Rubio - Ivan Ramirez to Coki Nieto and Javier Barahona.

It is the latter who have won the title in the afternoon. 6-4 / 6-2.

Among the ladies we were able to attend to the coronation of the French Alix Collombon. This is her second title in a challenger this year and the least we can say is that the Lyonnaise and her partner have shown a very high level of play and left no chance for their rivals.
They win with a score of 6-3 / 6-2 against Eli Amatriain and Carolina Navarro.

Rubio in “Parkour” mode

The matches of the day were intense on both sides and the players gave everything to try to come away with the title.

The proof is in an action which was played after a par 3 of Coki Nieto, where we could see Gonzalo Rubio rush off the track in an attempt to retrieve that tough ball.
Caught up in the desire to put the ball back into play at all costs, the Sevillian found himself in a situation that was uncomfortable to say the least.

To view these images you just have to click there.

In the padel spanish there is an expression called “La nevera”. In French it means the fridge.
It consists of not playing on a player for a few balls so that he cools down and tire his teammate.

In this case in the images that you could see in the link above, we can see that in its tracks Zalo Rubio ends his race by putting his foot ... in a fridge used to keep the water bottles cold after running on the players' seats.
We can say that the Spaniard took “una nevera” but this time literally!

More fear than harm, Blond was not really hurt. He gets away with a little fright and a little ankle bandage.

WPT equipment in danger!

In recent days we can note that the equipment has become more and more in danger with some players on the circuit.

Between Martin Di Nenno here repeatedly breaks cameras dedicated to covering the runs and Gonzalo Rubio which overturns everything in its path, the organizers of the WPT will have to think about reviewing their damage insurance because at this rate there will not be much left to break!

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.