Last Saturday, January 22, the sixth day of the Top10 Badminton Honor Division League that faced the Valencians of the San Fernando Badminton Club with the Alicante Badminton Club in an exciting meeting in Alicante. They were this time the locals who took the victory by 5-2 to move up to the third position of the group B table.
As usual, the mixed doubles was the game that opened the match. On the part of the visitors, the usual jumped on the track Alejandro Alcalá and Andrea Arrones to face the locals Alberto Perals and Ana Caballero. Even though the The Valencians were the first to get the match on track after taking the lead with a 0-2, the Alicante were able to react to take the victory in the last three games, so the clash ended with a score of 8-11, 10-11, 11-5, 11-2 and 11-9.
Doubles by genres
After the mixed began the round of doubles by gender. At women’s doubles, the Valencian club lined up Andrea Arrones again accompanied this time by the Bulgarian player Hristomira Popovska. Their opponents on the Alicante side on this occasion were Ana Ramirez and Helena Sanchez. Again the Valencians began taking the initiative by winning the first game but finally the locals added a new point for their team by winning the next three and leaving the score 6-11, 11-9, 11-7 and 11-7. Meanwhile, on the adjoining track, the men’s doubles, which pitted Fran Olivares and Carlos Sánchez for San Fernando against Miguel Esteve and José Luis Martín for Alicante. With a fairly tight score they were finally the locals who prevailed to take the victory after giving up the second set but ending up closing with a 5-11, 11-9, 9-11 and 9-11 in favor.
With a 2-1 overall in favor of the locals, the first singles jumped onto the track. The women’s individual 2 pitted Silvia Ferrandis against the young woman from Alicante, Ana Caballero. The Valencian could not find herself comfortable with her game and finally gave in, leaving a score of 11-7, 11-7 and 11-4. At the same time he played men’s individual 2 in which Alejandro Alcalá faced the local Alberto Perals in a game that started very close but in which the man from Alicante was able to end up taking off on the scoreboard to take the victory with a score of 11-9, 7-11, 11-5 and 11-4. In this way, Alicante got the fourth point that gave them victory in the absence of two games that still remained to be played.
individual games
The The last round of singles began with the Bulgarian Hristomira Popovska facing off against Ana Ramírez from Alicante. After an irregular start, the one from San Fernando managed to recover and ended up adding the second victory for her team after reaching the fifth set with a score of 11-5, 10-11, 11-9, 4-11 and 6-11. On the adjoining track they played the men’s individual 1 in which the Valencian Lorenzo Adell faced Miguel Esteve. The visitor managed to make it difficult for the man from Alicante but after a tight start he ended up losing 3 sets to 1 with a final score of 11-7, 8-11, 11-2 and 11-7.
At the end of the match, Fran Olivares expressed his feelings saying that “I am happy to have been able to score a point for the team together with my teammate Carlos, although in the end we were not able to take the victory against CB Alicante. Even so, we are still leaders of the group and I think the team will learn from this defeat and will recover for the next game”.
The coach of the Valencians, Arturo Hernández, shared his thoughts with us after the match saying that “it was a very tough match, we had chances in most of the matches but for one thing or another it was not possible, added to this Alicante has been very solid and that has made the situation even more difficult for us. The most important thing about a defeat is to capitalize on the experience, learn and work again, more and better in an intelligent way”.
Next Saturday, January 29, the next day will take place for the CB San Fernando Valencia, which will receive the Club Badminton Granada in the Turia capital in another important meeting that is presumed to be very close again after the new incorporations of the Andalusians in the market of winter.
