Relief on one side, disappointment on the other. Badminton Oviedo yesterday won a great victory against Benalmádena (7-0) and avoided any risk of relegation, but Arjonilla’s victory against Ravachol prevented the team from Oviedo from entering the playoffs for the Division of Honor title. In this way, the CBO, current league champion, ends the season prematurely, in mid-March. After the game, the club’s technical director, César González, said he was “very happy to have achieved the objective of remaining for one more year and partly saddened by not having achieved the play-off for the title, since the players they deserved it after the great work they show day by day. At the Manuel Novo sports center in Tudela Agüeria, where they play their games this season for the works at the Corredoria Arena, Oviedo continued the good game they had shown on the last day against Ravachol and gave Benalmádena no chance. The mixed double set the tone, formed by Javier Suárez and Lorena Uslé: victory in three sets against José Molares and Elena Lorenzo (11-5, 11-8 and 11-7). The men’s doubles was not so easy, in which Alberto Zapico and Javier Suárez had to play a fourth set to win 11-5, 11-8, 9-11 and 11-4.
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Four sets were also played in the women’s doubles, which was decided in favor of the couple from Oviedo made up of Claudia Leal and Lorena Uslé against Ainoa Cuervas and Sofía Louis Macsali. After winning the first two sets by 11-9 and 11-7, the CBO couple gave up the third (10-11) to sentence in the fourth (11-8).
The Oviedo team completed the plenary in the individual. Álvaro Leal convincingly beat Rafa Gálvez (11-6, 11-4 and 11-2) and Laura Álvarez beat Elena Lorenzo in the most disputed point of the day (11-7, 6-11, 10-11). , 11-7 and 11-5). The young local player recovered after being behind on the scoreboard and came from behind in the last two sets.
Her partner Claudia Leal beat Macsali in four sets (11-5, 11-10, 7-11 and 11-4) and Uriel Canjura added the last point for the CBO against Vázquez after losing the first set (9-11, 11- 7, 11-6 and 11-6). “I really liked the attitude of the team, of putting the club at the top. We are satisfied with the last matchday, from which we have positive feelings, and we will continue working”, said the Salvadoran after completing the 7-0 victory.
