The dirt courts of El Cortijo Club Campo, in the Gran Canaria municipality of Telde, hosted this Sunday the start of the largest series of ITF tennis tournaments held in the Canary Islands, with the TDC-Series PROwhich started with the dispute of the preliminary phase of the first of the under 15 tournaments, the Gran Canaria Women’s TDC Series PRO I – W15 Teldeendowed with a cash prize of 15,000 dollars, and with the beginning of the previous phase of the tournament belonging to the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors J60 Telde. Held together, both tournaments will have the participation, in this first week, of 168 players who come from lists of more than 1000 registered.
He J60 Telde (junior tournament) will have the participation in the final phase, which will start on Tuesday, invited by the organization with a wild card the canaries Roberto
Perez Socas and Enrique Rodriguez Gil. Directly in the final table and classified by ranking, they will be defending the canary colors noah lopezwho will start as the tenth seed and Kenay Ortiz. In the previous phase there will also be the canaries David Roseler, Samuel García, Saúl Pacheco and Rodrigo Ledesma.
In the female box the four invitations will be for the Canarian players Irene Vigara, Daniela Fernández, Carlota Heinz and Gabriela Paunwho will start playing next Tuesday, while in the previous phase they will participate Marta Gayoso, Laura Tapia, Noah Rojas and Emma Ascanio as local representatives.
The national referee of the tournament will be Jorge Reoyo (White sheet).
The Cortijo Club de Campo is committed to youth tennis to give young Canarian players the opportunity to compete at the highest level without leaving the islands and to be able to make the leap from youth tennis to professional tennis, this being the most difficult step within this sport, while attracting players of more than 60 nationalities to the island of Gran Canaria. Gran Canaria thus becomes a meeting point for international tennis, managing to promote the sport-tourism pairing.
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The Tenerife player Noah Rojas overcame the first qualifying phase, beating Nerea Errasti 6-2, 6-1. Laura Tapia had worse luck, who lost her match against the German Annik Freund 6-4, 6-1. The Spanish Elena Morales also managed to sneak into the second round of the preliminary phase after beating the English Ella Blomfield. Ivet Prat Badosa beat the Ukrainian Valeria Fomenko 6-1, 7-5.
Emma Ascanio (Tenerife) triumphed against Mariya Ankudinova (Kazakhstan), Iva Saric lost to the Ukrainian based in Tenerife Sabrina Tolstova 6-1 and 6-1. The confrontation between two Canary Islands Isabel García and Paula García del Rey ends with the victory of the first 6-4 6-2. In the men’s junior Keoni Puig beat the Swiss Joel Hansson 6-3 and 6-0. Samuel García from Tenerife beat the Mexican Santiago Ledesma 6-2 and 6-3. The Spanish Sergi Fita Juan defeats the Brazilian Lucas Vidaller. At the time of writing this edition, the rest of the matches of the first round of the preliminary phase are being played.
He Gran Canaria Women’s TDC Series PRO I – W15 Telde It began with 32-player teams both in qualifying and in the final phase. The invitation to the final table of the organization is for the player of El Cortijo Club de Campo Andrea Pérez Bordón. The supervisor will be Aitor Velasco (Plata plate) and will have the help of international referees Jacobo Morata and José Lovera.
The German player Sofiya Afandieva beat her compatriot Anastasiya Kuparev 7-5, 6-2; the Czech Jana Kareisova to the Chinese Shuqian Xu by 6-3 and 6-2. The Japanese Tomoe Yazawa lost to the German Anna Schubries 6-2 and 6-4. The American Isabella Barrera beat the Russian Dariia Monakhova 6-3, 6-1 and the Russian Maria Andrienko beat the Canarian player Elena Lobo 6-1, 6-4.
