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In the same weekend, Sara Arenas has achieved a silver in the Under-13 National Master, played in the town of Villanueva de la Vera in Cáceres
The year has begun with new joys for the badminton Ruteño The penultimate weekend of January has provided two appointments with metals for local representatives. The largest has been in The corner place. The Sevillian municipality has hosted the first Top Andaluz of 2022. There it has shone with its own light Maria Luisa Jimenez, champion in singles and runner-up in mixed doubles. Next to her, Rute Badminton Club has led to Ruben Algar Y Lydia Molina. All three participated in the under-19 category. Despite the fact that they were left without a medal, Rubén and Lidia played a great tournament, in a category higher than theirs, and won matches in the group stage.
- In the group stage, the victory against the number one seed, Karen Martín, gave María Luisa a direct pass to the final
Greater still has been the jump of María Luisa. He has played in a category twice higher than the one that corresponds to him. For this, the group stage was crucial, where the victory against the number one seed, Karen Martin, gave him the direct pass to the final. I was waiting for her there Celia DeLara. In a more even match than the scoreboard reflected, the Ruteña prevailed in two sets, 21-15 and 21-18. In mixed doubles, silver would come with his usual dance partner, the man from Granada mario rodriguez. After securing the medal in the semifinals against Angel Rooster Y Paula Moreno, in the final they could not against Alvaro Moran Y Elena Paya, who ended up winning 18-21 and 13-21.
At this same appointment he was also Rute Flying Club, who returned to competition after almost two months. The Ruteño team displaced six players to La Rinconada: Antonio Hinojosa, Angela Moyano, Cristina Ramirez, Diego Arenas, paco baena Y Margaret Jimenez. In the individual competition, only Diego had the chance to have fought for the medals, but the new regulations prevented him from passing, as only the first of each group qualified. In men’s doubles, the best performance corresponded to the Hinojosa-Arenas couple, who obtained a bronze.
Things went better for Sarah Arenas, which moved to Caceres to dispute the Villanueva de la Vera U-13 National Master. The Volante player won the silver medal in women’s doubles alongside the Andalusian Sandra Pastor, from C.B. Arjonilla. The only representatives of Andalusia in the category only gave in to the champions of the competition, Maria Garcia e Ines Poncela, from Ibiza and Galicia. In individual Sara was fifth, also losing to the Galician Inés Poncela.
